Companies Complete High Quality Assembly of Nellore Cattle Genome in Conjunction with Universidade Estadual Paulista SAN DIEGO & NESS ZIONA, Israel— Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in next-generation sequencing technology, and NRGene, a globally recognized leader in genome assembly and analysis, today announced a collaboration to develop new molecular breeding tools for cattle. As a first step, the […]

Leading Provider of Cloud-based Genomics Technology Joins HCA’s Global Cancer Institute to Grow Reach in Precision Medicine for People Facing Cancer Across the US & UK Nashville, Tenn. and Cambridge, Mass. – Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), today announced that Genospace, LLC, a cloud-based software company focused on advancing personalized medicine, […]

— Longer Synthetic DNA Accelerates Customer Discoveries — SAN FRANCISCO — Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis on silicon, today announced that it is now shipping genes up to 3,200 base pairs (3.2 kilobase or kB) in length to Ginkgo Bioworks under their existing supply agreement. “Twist Bioscience continues to […]

Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that Dr. Klaus Lun, Head of Corporate Development and a member of the Management Board of the Tecan Group since June 2013, has been appointed Head of the Life Sciences Business division. On December 14, 2016, Tecan announced that Dr. Stefan Traeger, Head of […]

– Expected Full Year 2016 Revenue Growth of 36% to 39% Year over Year – SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today provided preliminary operational and financial results for the year ended December 31, 2016. Financial Highlights: Total revenue for 2016 expected to be in […]

Combines award-winning Chromium™ System from 10x Genomics with PerkinElmer’s state-of-the-art automation solutions PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics, Inc., a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced they and PerkinElmer, Inc. will jointly offer automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions. PerkinElmer’s automation solutions increase both the throughput and efficiency of […]

High Throughput Sequencing Instruments Capable of Transforming Genomics to Improve Human Health at an Unprecedented Scale Illumina NovaSeq 6000 System SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in next-generation sequencing technology, today introduced the NovaSeqTM Series, a new and scalable sequencing architecture expected one day to enable a $100 genome. Unveiled at the J.P. […]

Structural Variant Detection, De Novo Assembly and Targeted Sequencing Applications Improved MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) today announced a new version of chemistry (V2) and software (V4) for the Sequel™ System. The new release improves the system’s ability to support important applications such as structural variant detection and targeted sequencing— including […]

SAN DIEGO & HERCULES, Calif.– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:BIO) (NYSE:BIOb) today announced the launch of the Illumina® Bio-Rad® Single-Cell Sequencing Solution at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The comprehensive solution is the first next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow for single-cell analysis, providing researchers the ability to investigate the coordinated contribution of individual cells in tissue function, disease progression, and therapeutic response. […]

Data interpretation from Watson will help users translate genomic data  from  Illumina TruSight® Tumor 170; offering to be available early in 2017 SAN FRANCISCO – IBM Watson Health (NYSE:IBM) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced a groundbreaking partnership to  expand access to genome data interpretation by integrating Watson for Genomics into  Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub and tumor sequencing […]