SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. Applied BioCode is pleased to announce that they have been accepted for listing on the Taiwan Emerging Market Stock Exchange (ticker symbol 6598). As a registered Cayman Island corporation with facilities in the United States and Taiwan, Applied BioCode designs, develops, and commercializes innovative high value automated products for the Molecular […]

BALTIMORE, MD — Circulomics has been awarded a $1.5M SBIR Phase II grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to develop a single molecule platform for DNA/RNA sample quality analysis based on PicoSep technology. PicoSep is a single molecule instrument that can perform accurate sizing and quantification of DNA/RNA […]

New Bionano Solve 3.0 assembly and analysis software to be released this quarter SAN DIEGO — Bionano Genomics, the leader in physical genome mapping, today released the first comprehensive dataset outlining the performance of large structural variant (SV) detection in human genomes. In a pre-print publication appearing online, Bionano describes its new assembly and SV […]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the UK-based company that sells the only nanopore sequencing device, the MinION portable DNA sequencer and is now releasing the high throughput/high sample number PromethION device, responds to the patent lawsuit now filed in the UK by Pacific Biosciences. Dr Gordon Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore said “This repeat suit shows the same very one-dimensional reasoning […]

– TrueHelix establishes SYGNIS as a reference in next generation sequencing (NGS) related bioinformatics – The TruePure tool addresses sample contamination, a key pitfall in NGS workflows – SYGNIS reinforces its client focused marketing approach by providing customer support in sequencing analysis Madrid, Spain, and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime […]

Expanded CRISPR toolkit includes Cpf1 and range of Alt-R™ support products, increasing the options available to molecular biology researchers  CORALVILLE, IA – Reflecting its drive to provide innovative solutions to the genomics community, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is the first genomics company to develop and bring to market a complete ribonucleoprotein-based Cpf1 CRISPR system. The Alt-R™ […]

SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that Humana has issued a positive coverage decision for the Prosigna® Breast Cancer Gene Signature Assay. Humana and its more than 13 million members join other payors now covering Prosigna, collectively representing more than 175 million […]

Bioinformatics content knowledgebase will enable interpretation for 100,000 Genomes Project Hilden, Germany, and London, United Kingdom – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Genomics England has selected QIAGEN’s HGMD® Human Gene Mutation Database for its 100,000 Genomes Project. HGMD is the leading content knowledgebase for interpretation of genomic data in hereditary and rare diseases, […]

Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) are pleased to announce the launch of their second edition Life Sciences Catalogue. This edition is double the size of its predecessor and covers areas such as Cell Culture and Imaging, Bioprocessing, Electrophoresis, PCR, Sample preparation and purification, Transfection and Antibodies. With products from World-leading brands including Lonza, Thermo Scientific, Corning, […]

We have made available to our user community a new library preparation protocol for DNA sequencing using Whole Genome Amplification.  It is designed to help users who have a very low amount of starting material prepare DNA libraries for sequencing on the latest R9.4 chemistry. Whole Genome Amplification has been of interest to the Nanopore […]