Today, BC Platforms (BCP), a global leader in healthcare data management, analytics and access, was pleased to announce a new partnership with Artisan Biomed (Artisan), a genomics services and health solutions provider that aims to develop precision medicine in South Africa. This partnership provides Artisan with enhanced integration with BCP’s world-class genomics platform, which could boost […]

License agreement to enhance GenScript’s CRISPR offering for gene and cell therapy research Dublin, Ireland and Piscataway, New Jersey: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, and GenScript Biotech Corporation (GenScript), the world’s leading research reagent provider, today announced a non-exclusive license […]

Nuclera, a fast-growing biotech company developing enzymatic protein and gene synthesis technologies, and E Ink, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, are pleased to announce the acquisition of E Ink’s digital microfluidics unit into the newly formed US subsidiary of Nuclera. Combining the technologies of the two companies will enable the delivery of a […]

HERCULES, Calif.–Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the launch of the SEQuoia RiboDepletion Kit, which improves assay efficiency by eliminating irrelevant ribosomal RNA (rRNA) fragments from an RNA-Seq library. The SEQuoia RiboDepletion Kit is designed for genomics researchers targeting rare transcripts […]

Pharmaceutical Developments Benefit From iSWAB-RNA v2 Samples In Cancer Research HAYWARD, Calif. — Mawi DNA Technologies LLC, a biotechnology company focusing on the development of innovative technologies for biosampling, announces that MagBio Genomics has successfully developed an automated RNA purification method for iSWAB-RNA v2 on the Thermofisher KingFisher™ Flex platform with its HighPrep™ Total RNA Isolation […]

Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a unanimous Precedential Opinion and Judgment affirming the jury’s March 2020 verdict in the PacBio v. Oxford Nanopore case, that invalidated a number of PacBio patents.  This has been a long running dispute in which Oxford Nanopore has repeatedly prevailed.  In 2018, Oxford Nanopore was […]

HELSINKI, Finland — Euformatics and Al Jeel have signed a distribution partnership covering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expanding the reach of the company’s omnomics Suite of NGS software products to hospitals and laboratories as NGS sequencing technology uptake continues to expand in the Middle East. The agreement follows the selection of Al Jeel as […]

TwinStrand’s transformational improvements in DNA sequencing accuracy deliver 10,000x greater sensitivity, making it a crucial tool for genomic research and medicine Financing was led by Section 32 partner Michael Pellini, MD who has also joined the company’s Board of Directors TwinStrand Biosciences, the pioneer and developer of Duplex Sequencing, an ultra-high accuracy technology for revealing […]

Oxford Nanopore has released new protocols enabling the rapid, cost effective sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19. Research teams are able to access sequencing technology in days, without capital cost, for quick set-up of rapid turnaround SARS-CoV-2 sequencing.  From initial characterisation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome to the rapid identification of variants, researchers have been utilising nanopore sequencing to […]