Neuried, Germany – Life Science Newswire – The rapid spread of the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus variant B.1.1.7 in Great Britain and other countries shows changes in the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can lead to new biological properties. Most of the approximately 12,000 mutations in the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that have been identified since February […]

Boston, MA, USA, and Lausanne, SWITZERLAND: SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine, announced today that Kathy L. Hibbs was nominated to the company’s Board of Directors and its Audit Committee. Hibbs is an accomplished healthcare technology executive, currently holding the position of Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer at 23andMe, the leading consumer genetics and research company. […]

Subsidized technology available as global bodies call for sequencing to confirm COVID-19 mutations CARLSBAD, Calif. — As scientists continue to identify new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including the B.1.1.7 UK variant that studies suggest is more transmissible, genetic sequencing is being used to track these strains and new ones that are emerging, as well as to trace […]

— RNA Controls Can Help Avoid False Negative Results — SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced that it has started shipping its new synthetic RNA reference controls, which includes the new variant […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, today announced a multi-year collaboration with Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, to begin development of a production-scale high-throughput sequencing platform leveraging the power of PacBio’s highly accurate HiFi sequencing to expand Invitae’s […]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies and NVIDIA are collaborating this year to integrate the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s ultra-high throughput sequencing system, PromethION.  Partnering the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU technology with the PromethION device aims to deliver the world’s most powerful sequencer that supports real-time analyses at scale, and can also analyse any […]

Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Clinical Decision-Making Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Tumor Profiling Assays can be Combined with Clinical Informatics Platform with Potential to Reduce Time to Results and Complexity of Clinical Genomic Analysis Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration […]

The BD® AbSeq Immune Discovery Panel enables researchers to execute single cell experiments with high efficiency FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial release of the BD® AbSeq Immune Discovery Panel (IDP), a state-of-the-art, pre-titrated antibody-oligo based discovery tool designed to investigate 30 immune […]

Investors include Baird Capital, Arboretum Ventures and LYZZ Capital; funding will accelerate commercialization of CRISPRclean™ next-generation sequencing technology Life sciences industry veteran Frank Witney joins Jumpcode Board of Directors Jumpcode opens new headquarters in San Diego biotech business hub SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Jumpcode Genomics – a genome technology company focused on improving the understanding of human […]

Company to Accelerate Mass Manufacturing and Commercialization of Proprietary PCR-Free Multi-Omics Technology Following Year of Rapid Growth Cardea Bio, Inc., a Tech+Bio company integrating molecular biology with semiconductors via Graphene-based biology-gated Transistors, announced today a $6.5M series A extension that brings the A round total above $20M. The new capital infusion is led by the […]