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 […]

Tokyo, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) has been in collaboration with Promega Corporation, a leading manufacturer of reagents used for human identification by DNA*1 analysis, regarding a compact capillary electrophoresis (CE) sequencer. Genetic analysis laboratories make use of first-generation CE sequencers and next-generation sequencers that use massively parallel processing to enable […]

Results from Mount Sinai, Washington University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories to be presented at AGBT 2017 General Meeting (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences today announced the commercial release of its Accel-NGS® XL Library Prep Kit, the fastest sequencing solution for whole genome sequencing on Pacific Biosciences (PacBio®) platforms. This library preparation kit, specially optimized for […]

Allows laboratories to generate forensic DNA profiles from extracted and quantified DNA samples in 90 minutes Several crime scene samples tested with the new system uploaded into CODIS, including DNA extracted from a rape kit Pleasanton, California – IntegenX Inc., the global market leader for Rapid DNA human identification, announced the introduction of the RapidHIT […]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or the “Group”), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces the signing of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with a top three global pharmaceutical company (the “Company”), extending support for their drug discovery and development efforts to Horizon’s full suite of […]

Madison, WI USA. Soon scientists will be able to perform efficient DNA analysis right at their bench. Promega Corporation has announced the development of a benchtop capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation. The Spectrum Compact CE System meets small batch and single sample needs in DNA analysis and performs both sequencing […]

– Complete software suite provides a comprehensive, scalable solution for cell characterization and gene expression profiling of hundreds to millions of individual cells – PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced the launch of a new software suite for analyzing and visualizing […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Genomenon announces the launch of Mastermind, a novel analytic and data visualization tool that accelerates gene and variant curation by providing immediate insight into millions of prioritized scientific articles from the primary medical literature. Mastermind delivers a comprehensive knowledge base of disease-gene-variant relationships curated from primary medical literature, organized into clinical […]

BEVERLY, Mass. — Sage Science, a developer of products for improving sample preparation processes in life science applications, today announced the launch of a new platform that can extract and purify extremely large DNA fragments directly from bacterial and tissue cultures, blood samples, or other cell sources. The SageHLS platform will be on display at […]