Additional Illumina assays to be combined with the PierianDx platform to reduce time, cost, and complexity of genomic reporting PierianDx, the leading clinical genomics informatics company, today announced an expanded partnership with Illumina to enable PierianDx genomic reporting solutions for use with AmpliSeq™ for Illumina® Focus Panel, AmpliSeq™ for Illumina® Myeloid Panel and the TruSight™ Hereditary Cancer […]

Cambridge, United Kingdom  – Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Muthu Meyyappan as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), effective immediately. Muthu will lead all aspects of Congenica’s sales and marketing and will be based in Boston, MA. […]

Increased yield can drive disposable costs for MinION to $35/Gb and for PacBio to <$10/Gb Fire Monkey version 8 (FMv8) record-breaking 30Gb+ yield of raw DNA data from an E. Coli sample on a single Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION flow cell (Fig. 1) Increased yield boosts DNA recovery and improves sequencing (Fig. 2) Based […]

Today marks the release of the MinKNOW App for iOS and Android devices, now available to download from the Apple Store and Google Play. MinKNOW is the operating software that drives nanopore sequencing devices. It carries out several core tasks, including data acquisition, real-time analysis and feedback, local basecalling, and data streaming – whilst providing […]

SAN DIEGO — Maravai LifeSciences, Inc. (Maravai) (NASDAQ: MRVI), a global provider of life science reagents and services to researchers and biotech innovators, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 69,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase up to 9,000,000 additional shares of […]

Robert Wicke brings comprehensive leadership to innovative start-up SAN DIEGO — Omniome, Inc., developer of a novel DNA sequencing platform capable of delivering unsurpassed sequencing accuracy, today announces the appointment of Robert Wicke as Chief Executive Officer.  He will immediately assume day-to-day leadership and join Omniome’s Board of Directors. Robert brings over 30 years’ experience […]

An experienced leader in corporate development and operations steps into new role at growing start-up SAN DIEGO – Omniome, Inc., developer of an innovative DNA sequencing platform capable of delivering unsurpassed sequencing accuracy, announces the promotion of Kelly Perez to Chief Operating Officer. Kelly, who has been Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations of Omniome […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Maravai LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. (Maravai) (NASDAQ: MRVI), a global provider of life science reagents and services to researchers and biotech innovators, today announced the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 60,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $27.00 per share, before underwriting discounts and […]

Fast and accurate method for simultaneous detection of four species of pathogenic Aspergillus: A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. terreus, in cannabis and cannabis-infused products POTSDAM, Germany — BIOTECON Diagnostics is pleased to announce the launch of its highly convenient, sensitive, rapid and easy to use lyophilized test kit – the foodproof Aspergillus Detection LyoKit. Within two days […]

SEATTLE — TwinStrand Biosciences today announced it has entered into a worldwide non-exclusive agreement to sublicense two foundational patent families to Foundation Medicine and its affiliates relating to TwinStrand Duplex Sequencing™ error-correction technology. Duplex Sequencing increases the accuracy of next-generation sequencing as much as 10,000 times, allowing the detection of ultra-low frequency mutations that would […]