GenapSys’s highly accurate sequencer is poised to help researchers and public health officials across Asia better track and understand the outbreak Redwood City, Calif. — GenapSys Inc. announced today the launch of its gene sequencer in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, including in Korea, Singapore, Japan, and the fast-growing Chinese gene sequencing market, which is […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has reached an agreement with Twist Bioscience under which Twist has agreed to pay Agilent a sum of $22.5 million to settle Agilent’s claims against Twist, as well as current and former Twist employees Emily Leproust, Siyuan Chen, and Solange Glaize. The claims […]

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 it has reached a settlement agreement with Agilent Technologies to resolve all claims and counterclaims in the trade secret litigation filed by Agilent on February 3, 2016. Under […]

SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Scott Gottlieb, M.D. has joined the company’s Board of Directors, effective February 4, 2020. Dr. Gottlieb is currently a special partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). From 2017 to 2019, he served as […]

Freiburg, Germany | Boston, MA | Today, Eurofins GeneScan Technologies GmbH and UgenTec, Inc. announce the successful NF VALIDATION certification of five real-time PCR kits with the French Association of Standards (AFNOR). The submission and approval are part of an ongoing strategic partnership between Eurofins Genescan Technologies, a provider of RNA / DNA detection kits and UgenTec, a software company […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific today introduced a new next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based solution that enables reproductive health researchers to more efficiently analyze a broad range of key genetic markers with an end-to-end workflow. The Ion Torrent CarrierSeq ECS Kit for the Ion GeneStudio S5 System consolidates a multi-platform approach to expanded carrier screening (ECS) into a single solution […]

We proudly announce the extension of our product portfolio with the Kinexus rotational rheometers and Rosand capillary rheometers formerly manufactured and distributed by Malvern Panalytical Limited (“Malvern Panalytical”). NETZSCH and Malvern Panalytical look back on many years of close collaboration, making the acquisition of Malvern Panalytical’s rheology business a natural step in this journey. For […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. –Swift Biosciences, Inc (“Swift”) and Helix OpCo, LLC (“Helix”) today announced a Partnership Agreement to leverage Swift’s 2S Turbo DNA library preparation for Helix’s Exome+™ assay. Helix, a population genomics company, uses the Exome+™ assay to power population health programs focused on accelerating the integration of genomics into clinical care and facilitating […]

Microbiome products now available in China, Hong Kong, and Macau FARMINGTON, Conn.— Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company that develops tools for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, has announced a new distribution partnership in Asia. The distribution partner, Gene Company Limited, will sell Shoreline Biome’s microbiome kits and other products to companies […]

We proudly announce the extension of our product portfolio with the Kinexus rotational rheometers and Rosand capillary rheometers formerly manufactured and distributed by Malvern Panalytical Limited (“Malvern Panalytical”). NETZSCH and Malvern Panalytical look back on many years of close collaboration, making the acquisition of Malvern Panalytical’s rheology business a natural step in this journey. For […]