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 […]

The ForenSeq MainstAY Kit makes next-generation sequencing (NGS) accessible and practical for the average forensic laboratory. SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Verogen Inc. announced today that it is debuting an affordable entry point to NGS on the MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System with the commercial launch of the ForenSeq MainstAY Workflow. The kit targets the core autosomal and Y-STR loci […]

SAN DIEGO — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO), announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue US Patent No. 10,995,364 today, May 4, 2021. The patent, titled “METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SINGLE-MOLECULE WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS” covers methods for labeling DNA molecules with one or more sequence-specific probes and detecting the signal from […]

Automated synthesis of gene fragments using the BioXp™ system enables overnight production of error-corrected, de novo synthetic genes of up to 7,200 base pairs in length San Diego, CA – Codex DNA, Inc., creators of the BioXp™ system, a fully automated benchtop instrument that enables numerous synthetic biology workflows, announced the addition of longer fragment […]

Genomics innovator steps up to accelerate groundbreaking platform SAN DIEGO — Omniome, Inc., developer of an innovative DNA sequencing platform capable of delivering unsurpassed sequencing accuracy, announces the promotion of Richard Shen, PhD to the role of President. Richard brings over 20 years of leadership experience from the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and molecular diagnostic markets. Richard […]