Shenzhen, China– Recently, BGI announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, a world renowned scientist and genomics pioneer, has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Hood, a pioneer in the systems approach to biology and medicine, is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology and senior vice president and chief scientific officer of Providence […]

iHope Network Members Include Illumina, GeneDx, Genome.One, and HudsonAlpha; Dedicated to Help Find Answers for Underserved Families with Children Facing Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases Through whole-genome sequencing – the process of determining the genetic code or instructions in the cells within a person’s body – the iHope Network and their respective clinical partners strive to end […]

IRVINE, Calif. — Zymo Research announces the launch of its Discovery Series™DNA and RNA purification kits. The new product line includes eight of Zymo Research’s most popular kits in a new 5- and 10-prep/reaction format. The Discovery Series™ kits are designed to maximize flexibility and provide convenience for small volume research laboratories. An average sized nucleic […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – 27 February, 2017 – Congenica, a leading provider of clinical genome analysis technology, announced today that it has raised £8m ($10m) in its Series B financing round. Existing investors, Cambridge Innovation Capital plc (CIC) and Amadeus Capital Partners (Amadeus) participated alongside new investor, Parkwalk Advisors (Parkwalk). Congenica will use the Series B […]

OMAHA, Neb.–Transgenomic, Inc. (TBIO) (OTCQB: TBIO) today reported that trading in its shares will begin on the OTCQB exchange under the ticker “TBIO” effective at the open of business on February 22, 2017. On February 17, 2017, the Company received written notification from the staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that it had […]

CONCORD, Mass.–N-of-One, Inc., founded in 2008 as a leader in interpretation of molecular tests in oncology, announced today the launch of RapidInsights for Illumina’s TruSight Tumor 170 (TST170). RapidInsights is a fully automated interpretation solution that, in a matter of minutes, will read the bioinformatics output of the genomic variants produced by the TST170, and […]

Is now one of the only ISO certified third-party sequencer maintenance and resale companies TORRANCE, Calif. — SeqGen, Inc., a worldwide DNA sequencer and qPCR maintenance and equipment sales company, has achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification. Through meeting the standards for this certification, SeqGen has demonstrated its ability to provide products and services […]

AUSTIN, Texas − Asuragen, Inc., a global molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for the development and commercialization of capillary electrophoresis-based in vitro diagnostics (IVDs). Asuragen will leverage its AmplideX® PCR/CE product technologies to develop diagnostic kits for the 3500 Dx Series Genetic Analyzer CS2 instrument. […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that John W. Thompson will join the company’s Board of Directors on May 3, 2017, bringing extensive technology leadership experience to the company. Mr. Thompson’s executive leadership experience includes having served in chief executive officer roles at Symantec and Virtual Instruments, as well as 28 years of […]

An upgrade of the MinION software, MinKNOW, has been released to the nanopore community. MinKNOW 1.4.2 provides several improvements and new features: Experiment control parameters have been optimised to increase the volume of sequence data obtained from each nanopore channel. Recent internal experiments using MinKNOW 1.4 have generated as much as 17Gb from one MinION Flow […]