PLEASANTON, Calif. — Purigen Biosystems, Inc., a company providing next generation technology for extracting, enriching and quantifying nucleic acid from biological samples, today announced that Barney Saunders, PhD, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Saunders brings 30 years of experience managing emergent technologies and commercializing disruptive products for life […]

Location: Cambridge Breadth of research use rights now expanded to include multiple new species Grant of rights to have products made and sold by partners Grant of sub-licensed rights to one spin-out company Cambridge, UK, and Dublin, Ireland: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (“Horizon” or “the Group”), a global leader in gene editing and […]

SAN DIEGO, CA and CAMBRIDGE, MA — Edico Genome and Seven Bridges today announced the availability of Edico Genome’s DRAGENTM pipelines within Seven Bridges’ cloud-based data ecosystem. Edico Genome’s DRAGEN Germline V2, DRAGEN Somatic V2 and DRAGEN RNA Gene Fusion Detection Pipelines are now live on the Seven Bridges platform, enabling customers to leverage DRAGEN’s ultra rapid speeds and accuracy. Seven Bridges […]

Location: Cambridge First-to-market cfDNA Reference Standard specific for EGFR gene mutations adds to Horizon’s existing portfolio of cfDNA controls Horizon’s EGFR Multiplex cfDNA Reference Standard allows laboratories to optimize, validate and routinely monitor performance of PCR-based tests, NGS, and other novel assays Covers EGFR mutations implicated in the responsiveness to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors and […]

Our distributor agreement with BIOZOL expands the availability of the Novallele™ genotyping and copy number assays MELVILLE, N.Y. Canon BioMedical is pleased to announce our latest geographic expansion into the German-speaking countries of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. We are working with a new distributor, BIOZOL Diagnostica Vertrieb GmbH, that will distribute all of the Novallele […]

Across many scientific disciplines, but in particular in the field of genomics, major breakthroughs have often resulted from new technologies. From Sanger sequencing, which made it possible to sequence the human genome, to the microarray technologies that enabled the first large-scale genome-wide experiments, new instruments and tools have allowed us to look ever more deeply into the genome […]

QXDx BCR-ABL %IS Kit Achieves Highest Sensitivity for Detecting Disease Remission in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia HERCULES, Calif. — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) today announces the launch of the QXDx BCR-ABL %IS Kit, the first CE-IVD digital PCR test that can monitor the molecular response of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) to […]

Aloha from Hawaii. Johanna Anton shared miniPCR with intro Biology students at Hawai’i Community College – Pālamanui campus, which is the only community college on the West Side of Hawaii Island. This was the first ever PCR lab at Palamanui! Students did the Missy Baker Missing Learning Lab using miniPCR and the blueGel system.   The biology […]

SINGAPORE  — JN Medsys, a life science company behind the high-throughput chip-based Clarity™ digital PCR system, today announced the launch of a new generation digital PCR system featuring more than 40,000 partitions and 4- to 6- colour detection channels. Targeting users that demand greater performance, the new system offers better specifications over the Clarity™ system, which […]