Rijswijk, The Netherlands – BlueBee, a global bioinformatics solutions provider, has been awarded the HDS:2018 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). The Hébergeurs de Données de Santé or Health Data Hosting (HDS) accreditation is required for entities hosting personal health data governed by French laws. The British Standards Institution (BSI) conducted the audit and confirmed […]

Cambridge, Mass. – Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced the successful completion of a $135 million Series B financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s development of next-generation CRISPR technologies, expand its pipeline of base editing programs, and further extend its scientific […]

Canopy Biosciences™ LLC, a leading provider of gene editing and gene expression products and services, announced today that they had exclusively licensed technology for error correction in next generation sequencing (NGS)… ST. LOUIS — Canopy Biosciences™ LLC, a leading provider of gene editing and gene expression products and services, announced today that they had exclusively licensed […]

March 5, 2019 Boai NKY Medical Holdings Ltd. and Illumina, Inc. will jointly develop novel hereditary disease testing applications utilizing Illumina’s next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The collaboration is a significant step toward National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) review and approval, and is a starting point to deliver precision medicine products and services to patients throughout […]

Loop Genomics deploys new sequencing technology and protocols to provide unparalleled insight into transcriptome research SAN JOSE, Calif.— Loop Genomics, the single molecule counting long-read sequencing company with a hardware free solution, has expanded its kit and services capabilities to provide researchers with the first solution that provides both transcript counting and phasing for mRNA using […]

Göteborg, Sweden – TATAA Biocenter, Europe´s leading provider of genomic services, and SomaGenics, inventor of novel technology for the most efficient NGS library preparation of microRNA, announce collaboration in Europe, where TATAA will be offering exploratory microRNA profiling service and distribution of SomaGenics’s RealSeq® NGS products in Scandinavia, Czech and Slovak Republic. microRNAs are most […]

Experienced Team Will Lead Strategy to Commercialize RNA Technology MEDFORD, Mass. — GreenLight Biosciences, Inc., the bio-performance company developing RNA-based solutions for agriculture and pharmaceutical applications, announced the hiring of three experienced agricultural leaders as the company’s commercial team. Ron Flannagan has been named director, technical portfolio management; Joe Hanson joins as director, market development; and Catie Lee will serve as senior marketing manager. […]

MGI’s “Broadband” Sequencing Delivers Bandwidth to Achieve Genome for All Vision SAN JOSE, Calif. — MGI, a subsidiary of BGI Group, unveiled its novel CoolNGS chemistry, a disruptive new sequencing approach for its DNBseq™ sequencing technology that enhances the throughput, accuracy, read length and cost effectiveness of DNA sequencing. A global leader in innovative sequencing platforms, MGI is […]

Merck today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has allowed Merck’s patent application directed to the use of paired CRISPR nickases in eukaryotic cells. DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent covers paired Cas9 nickase technology to advance gene therapy and research, reduce off-target effects Marks company‘s 13th CRISPR patent overall Actively licensing CRISPR-related patents to interested parties Darmstadt, […]

The Saphyr platform is being used to drive the emergence of digital cytogenetics – a streamlined, comprehensive and cost-effective approach to modernize the clinical detection of structural variations which are at the root of human disease SAN DIEGO — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr, a platform […]