SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) elevates climate action goals with commitments for net zero greenhouse gas emissions aligned with the Paris Agreement, commits to verified Science Based Targets, signs the Business Ambition for 1.5 degree and joins the United Nations campaign Race to Zero. “Human health and the health of our environment are intertwined. At Illumina, […]

CHICAGO — Bringing an added level of confidence to the robust science that its assay offers, the bioMérieux, Inc. GENE-UP® NUTRAPLEX PRO™ multiplex pathogen detection assay has achieved the AOAC®  Research Institute Performance Tested MethodsSM approval (PTM 082103).  AOAC validation demonstrated statistical equiavalence to the U.S. Food and Drug (FDA) and U. S. Pharmacopeia (USP) reference methods for the detection […]

NEW YORK — Biotia, Inc., a company that delivers proprietary analytical software for infectious disease diagnostics, is experiencing rapid adoption by clinical researchers worldwide of its user-friendly software platform for the comprehensive surveillance  and deeper insights into COVID-19 viral genetic variants. Biotia’s COVID-DX software has been optimized for researchers sequencing COVID-19 clinical specimens and wastewater samples using the popular […]

Today, LGC announces that Euan O’Sullivan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organisation with immediate effect. Euan succeeds Tim Robinson, who will become Chairman of LGC having served as Chief Executive since May 2013. After joining LGC in 2007 as a Non-Executive Director, Euan served as Corporate Development Director from July 2010 […]

SAN DIEGO and SHANGHAI, China — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO) announced today that NuProbe Global, a global molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Houston, Texas, has adopted Bionano’s Saphyr system for optical genome mapping (OGM) to integrate their Quantitative Amplicon Sequencing (QASeq) and Blocker Displacement Amplification (BDA) technologies for research and product […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced a partnership to develop and commercialize tests that identify genetic mutations used in the assessment of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). Patients whose tumors are HRD-positive may be eligible for targeted treatment by a class of […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — INanoBio, a startup developing early stage disease diagnostics by combining semiconductor nanotechnology with biotechnology and machine learning, today announced it has successfully fabricated initial prototypes of its novel Field Effect Nanopore Transistor (FENT) device. FENT is INanoBio’s proprietary technology, a revolutionary device that combines CMOS transistor technology with solid state nanopores for […]

CINCINNATI — Meridian Bioscience, Inc., a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, announced today the launch of its new Air-Dryable™ Direct DNA qPCR Saliva and Air-Dryable™ Direct RNA/DNA qPCR Saliva Mixes, which are designed for incorporation in room-temperature stable molecular assays, directly targeting nucleic acid sequence from saliva and […]

INanoBio Makes Strides Towards Ubiquitous Point-of-Need DNA Sequencing SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — INanoBio, a startup developing early stage disease diagnostics by combining semiconductor nanotechnology with biotechnology and machine learning, today announced it has successfully fabricated initial prototypes of its novel Field Effect Nanopore Transistor (FENT) device. FENT is INanoBio’s proprietary technology, a revolutionary device that combines CMOS […]

HOUSTON— NuProbe scientists and collaborators recently published a new method for sensitive detection of somatic mutations using Oxford Nanopore sequencing platforms. The method, termed oncogene concatenated enriched amplicon nanopore sequencing (OCEANS), enables rapid, accurate, and affordable detection of somatic mutations as low as 0.05% variant allele frequency (VAF). This novel research will facilitate the development […]