Oxford Nanopore, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US CDC, Microsoft and Illumina collaborate with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to launch Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) $100 million four-year initiative will rapidly expand access to next-generation genomic sequencing tools and strengthen public health surveillance networks across Africa Oxford […]

Licenses aim to accelerate drug discovery leading to development of new therapies PanCELLa agreement marks MilliporeSigma’s first CRISPR license for bioproduction Takara Bio USA agreement gives access to MilliporeSigma’s CRISPR integration and vector technologies for Takara’s vector products and cell engineering services MilliporeSigma today announced that it has signed agreements licensing its CRISPR technology to two […]

Joins Africa CDC alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others in a four-year plan October 12, 2020 A dangerous novel pathogen emerging in any region is devastating, but even more so when genomics and bioinformatics infrastructure is insufficient to identify, monitor, or slow its spread. In resource-limited environments, public health officials struggle to allocate […]

SEATTLE– NanoString Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, and OnRamp Bioinformatics, a provider of cloud-based genomic analysis tools, today announced a key milestone in their partnership to develop new analysis tools to accelerate research on NanoString’s nCounter® Analysis System. After successful completion of an Early Access Program […]

We have added a Sequel II system from Pacific Biosciences to our Next Generation Sequencing facilities. The new platform widens our possibilities to optimally support partners in answering their toughest research questions in crop innovation. At KeyGene, next to our strategic focus on the Oxford Nanopore Technologies platforms, we continue to invest in NGS technologies […]

ERS scientific advisor and co-founder received award jointly with Jennifer A. Doudna, for ‘the development of a method for genome editing’ Dublin, Ireland – ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property (IP) co-owned by Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, congratulates Emmanuelle on being awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Synthego, the genome engineering company, today announced the design of new foundational technology for standardized precision and control of CRISPR-based gene editing inside cells using light. Described in Nature Communications, Synthego researchers developed a new class of guide molecules, CRISPRoff™, a synthetic sgRNA that fragments in response to light, enabling precise temporal and […]

HERCULES, Calif. – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products today announced the global launch of its CFX Opus 96 and CFX Opus 384 Real-time PCR Systems along with BR.io, a cloud-based instrument connectivity, data management, and analysis platform. The CFX Opus 96 and CFX […]