BUFFALO, N.Y. — OmniSeq®, an innovator in next generation sequencing in oncology, today announced its collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to employ its RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) gene expression profile assay for selecting immunotherapy combinations for patients in a Phase II clinical trial for patients with Recurrent/Metastatic (R/M) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Swift Biosciences of Ann Arbor, MI  has released a targeted gene panel that covers 100% of the SARS-CoV-2 S gene, even with limited viral titers. The Swift Normalase® Amplicon SARS-CoV-2 S Gene Panel (SNAP) eliminates the need to perform qPCR for library normalization. A pioneer in the development of DNA and RNA library preparation […]

SAN DIEGO – Level 10 Construction completes a cGMP space for TriLink Biotechnologies, which has fueled the development of COVID-19 diagnostic test kits and vaccines by providing high-quality and efficient delivery of mRNA, capping reagents, oligonucleotides, and NTPs. This will be the second construction that Level 10 Construction has completed for TriLink Biotechnologies including GMP and […]

As adoption of scRNA-seq in industry and academia accelerates, Parse Biosciences (formerly Split Bio) offers the most flexible and scalable single cell sequencing kit, no custom instrument needed Seattle, WA: Split Biosciences, a company providing researchers scalable and flexible single cell sequencing solutions, today announced $7M in Series A funding. The funding round was led […]

Initiative to promote the benefit of using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s library prep kits with SPT Labtech’s instruments to help reduce reagent and material requirements for high-throughput genome sequencing   CAMBRIDGE, UK – The cost of library preparation is one of the biggest obstacles to large next-generation sequencing (NGS) studies, slowing down the pace of insights […]

We concur with the court’s ruling that Illumina’s European Patent (EP) 1 828 412 to methods of sequencing by synthesis using ascorbic acid is invalid for obviousness and that MGI’s CoolMPS sequencing method does NOT infringe this patent, and also the finding that MGI’s CoolMPS sequencing does NOT infringe the EP 2 021 415 to […]

NEW YORK, NY — Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) (“Enzo” or the “Company”), a leading biosciences and diagnostics company, today announced that the Enzo Board of Directors has formed two new committees to support strategy related to targeting and execution of new business opportunities and development and support for new members of the leadership team within […]

TUCSON, Ariz. — HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, today announced that Timothy (TJ) B. Johnson has resigned his positions as Executive Chairman and a member of HTG’s Board of Directors. Ann F. Hanham, Ph.D. will remain as Lead Independent Director. Mr. Johnson has served […]

OmniTier today announced that its genomic secondary analysis appliance, CompStor Novos®, has added somatic variant calling from matched, whole genome sequencing (WGS) tumor-normal sample pairs. About Somatic Variant Calling The biggest challenge of somatic variant calling is to disambiguate low-frequency variants from artifacts. To solve that challenge OmniTier implemented sensitive statistical modeling to develop a […]