GenDx is the first global company to register a chimerism monitoring product line as CE-IVD. The chimerism portfolio is intended for monitoring the chimeric status after stem cell or bone marrow transplantation, and includes KMRtype® and KMRtrack® reagents, as well as KMRengine® software. The in vitro diagnostic products will be distributed to clinical laboratories, supporting […]

New liquid handling platform reduces assay development time and improves assay robustness in high throughput screening Global commercial launch at SLAS 2018 from 3rd to 7th February 2018, in San Diego, CA, Booth #1219  Cambridge, UK: TTP Labtech Ltd, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — MedGenome has expanded its sequencing capacity at its Foster City, Calif., headquarters laboratory, adding HiSeqX and NovaSeq 6000 platforms to meet the rising demands for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in research and clinical settings. The new additions increase MedGenome’s data-generation capability by a factor of five. Additionally, availability of a wide range of sequencing […]

New system launch planned for second half of 2018 with two CE-IVD molecular diagnostics, U.S. launch planned for 2019 and broad pipeline in development Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire STAT-Dx, a privately-held company developing the next generation […]

High-speed data analysis enables the scale-up of mechanism-of-action and kinetic assays for in-depth hit and lead characterization Basel, Switzerland Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced the release of Genedata Screener 15, featuring extended support of large-scale mechanistic analyses. The new version also delivers new functionality for the analysis of kinetic binding […]

Partnership is a key milestone in DNA Script’s progress toward commercializing its high speed, high efficiency, free-of-harsh-chemicals, DNA synthesis technolog PARIS & GAINESVILLE, Fla.–DNA Script and Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry (DCC) announced today an exclusive licensing agreement that will expand the use by DNA Script of a novel DNA building block, commercialized by DCC, to synthesize […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, announced today that it has completed a $12.3 million (£9 million) financing to advance the development of its technology. The financing was co-led by DCVC (Data Collective) of Palo Alto, CA and European-based Draper Esprit, and included […]

Ambry Genetics and Invicro Announce Partnership to Provide Enhanced Capabilities with Advanced Genomics Services to Enable Precision Medicine Partnership provides Pharmaceutical Companies a more Comprehensive Solution in an Effort to Improve Patient Care (Aliso Viejo, CA): Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry), leaders in genetic testing, announced today they will partner with Invicro, a leading provider of […]

DMU students work with local communities on the island A group of science students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU), United Kingdom, have taken part of a recent visit to Bermuda to work on promoting science with the community during a #DMUglobal trip to the island. 18 Biomedical Science, Medical Science and Forensic Science students spent a week in Bermuda […]

Diagenode’s CATS RNA-seq library prep kits and Genialis’ transcriptomics computing platform deliver a “one tube, one click” gene expression analysis solution Denville, NJ, and Liège, Belgium, and Houston, TX Diagenode and Genialis today launched a streamlined RNA-seq data analysis workflow to assess gene expression in low input or degraded RNA samples. The integrated sample-to-analysis workflow […]