A Research Collaboration Between LuminUltra, Dalhousie University and Halifax Water Demonstrates Wastewater Data Is a Powerful Tool in Early Detection and Tracking COVID-19 Prevalence within Communities FREDERICTON, NB – LuminUltra, a Canada-based biotechnology leader and portfolio company of XPV Water Partners, recently filed a patent for the first complete, rapid, and on-site COVID-19 wastewater testing solution that […]

Helps Saves Time and Ensures Accuracy of Gel and Western Blot Data Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leader in image analysis, is delighted to announce a new release of its GeneSys image capture software is available free of charge to users of Syngene imaging systems. Redesigned with time-saving features, the latest GeneSys software, makes it easy for […]

Nuremberg, PA – Applied Food Diagnostics, Inc., a food science solutions company, is pleased to announce the Molecular Environmental Monitoring Program (MEMP) Salmonella Assay has officially achieved AOAC® Performance Tested MethodsSM Certification No. 042002. The revolutionary protocol identifies Salmonella with matchless sensitivity and specificity, yielding results from an environmental swab in less than 2 hours. Specifically […]

ST. LOUIS — Partek Incorporatedannounced today that its software has been cited in over eight thousand peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals, including the prestigious PNAS, Cell, and Nature Medicine journals. Topics throughout their twenty-seven-year history range from drug research, human genetics and disease relationships to causes, diagnosis, and treatments. Samples of scientific papers citing the use of Partek […]

New Panel to Provide Support During Onset of Flu Season in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic San Francisco, CA — As the world continues to battle COVID-19, health officials are preparing for the possibility of more co-infections with the onset of the Flu Season. Studies show a high frequency of co-infections in patients with […]

Collaboration will utilize PacBio’s highly accurate HiFi sequencing to solve rare pediatric genetic diseases that have proven intractable in previous studies KANSAS CITY, Mo., and MENLO PARK, Calif. — Children’s Mercy Kansas City, one of the nation’s top pediatric medical systems, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of […]

NEW YORK – Geneyx Genomex said Monday that it has acquired Toldot Genetics. Geneyx acquired Toldot from biomedical informatics firm BATM Advanced Communications and several minority shareholders, who in return received a 5 percent equity stake in Geneyx. Additional terms of the deal were not disclosed. Geneyx, an Israel-based developer of genomic analysis and interpretation software, […]

Food analysis and biotechnology company licenses gene editing technology Dublin, Ireland, and Kanagawa, Japan: ERS Genomics Limited (“ERS”), which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property (IP) co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, today announced it has signed an agreement with FASMAC Co., Ltd (“FASMAC”) of Japan. Under the terms of the […]

ST. LOUIS & NATICK, Mass. — PierianDx, the leading clinical genomics informatics company, and Pillar Biosciences, a leading next-generation sequencing clinical oncology company, today announced a partnership that enables Pillar Biosciences to sell directly the PierianDx clinical genomic report in combination with its cancer profiling assays. Under the agreement, PierianDx will integrate the Pillar Biosciences […]

Latest Addition to the Mastermind Genomic Search Engine will Further Accelerate Clinical Workflow Genomenon® announced today that the latest release of the Mastermind® Genomic Search Engine includes Copy Number Variation (CNV) search. Since 5-30% of genetic disease is caused by deletion or duplication of genomic material, this new functionality will further accelerate diagnosis and interpretation of results for patients […]