Chris Stewart joins Bionano from Tesla where he headed up the ultracapacitor business unit. Over his career, he has served in a number of executive roles in private and public commercial stage companies including as controller, V.P. of Finance and CFO. Chris’s breadth of operational finance experience will be a key to Bionano’s continued global […]

Major Life Sciences Investors Support Company’s Vision, Strengthen Its Position as the Leader in Genome Engineering for Rapid Therapeutic Discovery, Development and Manufacturing REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Synthego, the genome engineering company, today announced that it raised $100 million in a Series D financing led by new investor Wellington Management, co-led by RA Capital Management and […]

Three years after its debut, NovaSeq makes deeper discoveries more accessible than ever A little more than three years after launching its most powerful sequencer, Illumina installed its 1,000th NovaSeqTM 6000 Sequencing System. The sequencer was placed at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2020. An early adopter of genome sequencing technology, […]

Kathryne Reeves (Photo: Business Wire) SAN DIEGO — Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Kathryne Reeves will join the company as Chief Marketing Officer on September 28, 2020. Reeves brings more than 25 years of marketing and general management experience in roles across the healthcare, technology, and consumer products industries. Reeves will report to Chief […]

SAN DIEGO — Biocom Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports life science innovation by strengthening the workforce and leaders of tomorrow, today announced a partnership with Illumina and the Illumina Foundation to advance the Illumina Genomic Discoveries Educator Program & Curriculum. Using Illumina’s latest technologies, this comprehensive program will allow teachers and students the opportunity […]

Second manufacturing expansion within a year will help meet global demand for research, clinical and GMP grade raw materials as well as research and clinical grade APIs to include mRNA, self-amplifying RNA and plasmid DNA SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Maravai LifeSciences, a global provider of life science reagents and services to researchers and biotech innovators, […]

SPINeasy™ DNA Kit for Soil employs spin column technology, proprietary lysis buffers to protect the DNA and specially formulated buffers to remove inhibitors, to extract genomic DNA of high yield and purity from the diverse and difficult soil samples. MagBeads FastDNA™ Kit for Feces allows high yield and quick isolation of genomic DNA from fecal samples. It […]

TAMPA, Fla. — M2GEN announced today the launch of its oncology-focused Bioinformatics Support Services. Leveraging the results and knowledge gained from the ORIEN Avatar® Program, an extensive, unique and ever-growing oncology clinico-genomics dataset, the M2GEN Bioinformatics team provides bioinformatics support services adhering to best-in-class standards. M2GEN offers the following bioinformatics services: Paired Tumor and Germline Whole […]

BILLERICA, Massachusetts –  Bruker and Purity-IQ have joined forces to create a powerful new testing system for medical cannabis in Canada. The Purity-IQ Cannabis Fingerprint™ combines Bruker’s expertise in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based screening technology with Purity-IQ’s genomics capabilities to offer traceability and identity testing throughout the cannabis supply chain. There are currently no […]

Lineagen is a provider of proprietary molecular diagnostics services for individuals showing clinical presentations consistent with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other disorders of childhood development Acquisition expands Bionano’s commercial footprint by adding a robust commercial-stage diagnostics services business based on a menu of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) and other services performed […]