New assays for Campylobacter, STEC, Vibrio and Staphylococcus aureus enable more comprehensive pathogen testing for all food manufacturers BASINGSTOKE, England — Thermo Fisher Scientific today released five new Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR Assays and enhanced software to test food and related samples for: Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli and C. lari detection and identification E. coli O157:H7 and STEC screening STEC […]

New tool significantly increases HDR rates by providing optimized donor template design and simplified Cas9 guide RNA selection  CORALVILLE, Iowa – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a leading comprehensive genomics solutions provider, has launched the Alt-R™ HDR Design Tool and Templates, an intelligent and easy-to-use design tool that significantly increases homology-directed repair (HDR) rates by simplifying guide […]

Enabling Low-Cost, High-Volume Sequencing of Drug-Resistant Pathogens for Hospital Infection Control and Surveillance SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and HINXTON, United Kingdom — Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq:FLDM), an industry leader in microfluidics technology, and Next Gen Diagnostics (NGD), a Wellcome Sanger Institute-based leader in the automation of pathogen bioinformatics, today announce an exclusive agreement that enables NGD […]

Delivering up-to-date content for cytogenetic testing needs SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced three new microarrays to meet the needs of cytogenetic laboratories conducting both prenatal and postnatal research. The new Agilent GenetiSure Cyto microarrays include updated, clinically relevant content from respected databases. The probes on the Cyto microarrays provide high-resolution detection of copy […]

·        Series B investment led by west-coast investor Foresite Capital, with all existing investors participating in the round ·        Funds will be used to accelerate development of the Company’s gene synthesis platform, through to introduction of first products CAMBRIDGE, UK – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the synthetic biology company developing a desktop platform for scalable, high-fidelity and rapid gene […]

The UK genomic tools developer, RevoluGen Ltd., has entered into a global manufacturing arrangement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences which will ensure the supply chain for its world leading Fire Monkey / Fire Flower High Molecular Weight DNA (HMW-DNA) extraction and purification product. Under the non-exclusive agreement, GE Healthcare Life Sciences will manufacture RevoluGen’s Fire […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit relating to BGI’s “CoolMPS” sequencing products. The complaint was filed against BGI Genomics Co., Ltd., BGI Americas Corp., MGI Tech Co., Ltd., MGI Americas, Inc. and Complete Genomics Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern […]

SAN JOSE, CA–MGI, part of the global genomics leader BGI Group, announced an agreement with SOPHiA GENETICS to provide MGI’s customers access to the SOPHiA Platform for data analysis and interpretation. By combining MGI’s DNBSEQ™ sequencing technology with SOPHiA’s Platform, MGI provides an effective solution for clinical researchers and further drives adoption of MGI’s genetic sequencers. […]

Partnership to support highly sensitive variant analysis in cancer research HOUSTON & SHANGHAI – NuProbe Global, a global molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Houston, TX, has signed an agreement with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, where Oxford Nanopore has licensed NuProbe’s Blocker Displacement Amplification technology globally for undisclosed consideration. The technology combination offers the […]

OUTH 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 a collaboration with SOPHiA GENETICS, leader in Data-Driven Medicine to bring access to the universal SOPHiA Platform for advanced genomic analysis to Twist’s customers, providing the analysis […]