— 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 […]

This new research use only kit enables high throughput multiplex detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid, supports increased sample input and reduces background amplification from possible contaminating genomic DNA. IPSWICH, MA — New England Biolabs® (NEB®) today announced the launch of its Luna® SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR Multiplex Assay Kit for real-time detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid. This research use only (RUO) […]

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, today announced it has launched a local cloud solution that will enable researchers in China to perform more efficient genomic analysis at scale, helping to improve health outcomes. The announcement follows Congenica’s US$50m Series C […]

Illumina Connected Analytics: Connect, see, and read data directly in the cloud SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) is transforming genomic data bottlenecks into catalysts with the launch of Illumina Connected Analytics (ICA). This new and integrated bioinformatics solution provides a comprehensive, private, cloud-based data platform that empowers customers to manage, analyze, and explore large […]