Adding Decades of Leadership Experience in Personalized Medicine, Digital Health and Life Sciences SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Sue Siegel has joined the company’s Board of Directors effective February 5, 2019. Ms. Siegel is Chief Innovation Officer at General Electric (GE) and CEO of GE Ventures. She is responsible for leading the development and acceleration of innovation across GE and built GE […]

Israel Parliament Approval is Expected to Catalyze Export of Medical Cannabis; ETCH Biotrace Solution Positioned as Safe and Secure Means to Manage the Legal Supply Chain for Export STONY BROOK, N.Y.–Applied DNA Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (“Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in large-scale PCR-based DNA manufacturing, announced today that two prior announcements by Israel Cannabis […]

Financing to support expansion in translational informatics and drive adoption of DNAnexus Apollo™, a powerful new platform to advance drug discovery and improve clinical outcomes MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DNAnexus, Inc., the leader in biomedical informatics and data management, today announced closing a $68 million financing. The funds were raised from existing investors, GV (formerly Google […]

100-, 300- and 500-Cycle Kits expand the flexibility of the most powerful sequencer from Illumina The NovaSeq™ 6000 S Prime (SP) Reagent Kits are now available, enabling smaller batch sizes and lower output sequencing methods at a lower price per read compared to NextSeq™ or HiSeq™ Systems. The new NovaSeq S-Prime Reagent Kits are available in […]

Madison, WI USA. Promega Corporation today announced FALCO biosystems of Kyoto, Japan, a core business company of FALCO HOLDINGS, working in collaboration with Promega microsatellite instability (MSI) chemistry and assay design, obtained companion diagnostic approval for FALCO’s MSI-IVD from Japan’s regulatory agency, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). The MSI-IVD Kit (FALCO), which detects […]

Researchers from BGI-Shenzhen, the South China University of Technology, and elsewhere have isolated almost 6,500 bacterial representatives from fecal samples donated by 155 healthy individuals, using 11 types of growth media to culture the gut bacteria under anaerobic conditions in the lab. From there, the investigators turned to 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing, as well as […]

QCI is a powerful, high quality decision support solution for rapid interpretation of hereditary diseases Hilden, Germany, and London, United Kingdom – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Genomics England have selected QIAGEN’s QCI (QIAGEN Clinical Insights) portfolio offering on behalf of the NHS in England to support the UK’s program to sequence, […]

New generation direct cDNA and PCR-cDNA 109 Kits provide full-length cDNA transcripts at high yields. Oxford Nanopore has launched new ‘109’ cDNA Kits for its real-time, scalable sequencing technology. The new kits provide high throughput whilst generating complete sequences of full-length cDNA strands, with a low input option of just 1ng PolyA+ RNA. The new cDNA sequencing […]

Five new forensic labs are now using STRmix™ – forensic software that resolves mixed DNA profiles – bringing the total nationally to 43 agencies. WASHINGTON With the addition of five new forensic labs, STRmix™ – the sophisticated forensic software used to resolve mixed DNA profiles previously thought to be too complex to interpret – is […]

Companies Bring Together plexWell™ Multiplexed Library Preparation Technology and Powerful Imputation Software to Accelerate Large-scale, Sequencing-based Genomic Projects BEVERLY, Mass. and NEW YORK — seqWell and Gencove today announced a partnership to bring together seqWell’s plexWell™ library preparation technology and Gencove’s imputation and analysis software to provide genomic researchers a powerful and scalable end-to-end solution for low-pass whole genome sequencing and genotype […]