Automated Whole-Genome Sequencing Approach Provides Confidence in Results with Increased Sample Throughput and Decreased Turnaround Time Reno, Nev. – Hamilton Robotics continues to strengthen their ongoing partnership with Illumina, Inc. through the collaborative development of the VeriSeq™ NIPT Solution for high-throughput noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). This automated, next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow is a simple six-step […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—-Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform. The SGDP is the largest dataset of human genetic variation ever collected, including whole genomes from 300 individuals representing 142 diverse populations across the […]

BASEL, Switzerland—-ChemChina and Syngenta today announced that they have received approval from the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM) for the proposed acquisition of Syngenta by ChemChina. This represents a further step towards the closing of the transaction, which is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2017. The […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform. The SGDP is the largest dataset of human genetic variation ever collected, including whole genomes from 279 individuals representing 130 diverse populations across the globe. […]

NEW YORK — The Human Vaccines Project and Vanderbilt University Medical Center today announced that they joined forces with Illumina, Inc., to decipher the human immunome, the genetic underpinnings of the immune system. Illumina will provide the genetic sequencing technologies and expertise required to process the massive amounts of data required to decode the human immunome. The […]

– Integration completed in under three months – Local SYGNIS and C.B.S. sites in San Diego consolidated – CBS products now also sold through SYGNIS direct sales force Madrid, Spain, and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced the successful completion of the integration of C.B.S. Scientific Company Inc. […]

— Program helps meet customers’ needs for both basic and clinical research applications — Rigorous training ensures consistent and robust results — First genomic service providers certified PLEASANTON, Calif. — Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is pleased to announce the Certified Service Provider (CSP) program for SeqCap EZ Target Enrichment Systems utilizing Kapa library preparation kits. The program involves […]

Utrecht GenDx has signed a global reseller agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for the rights to offer an end to end workflow to HLA typing laboratories that includes the Ion Torrent brand of next-generation sequencing (NGS) systems and consumables with GenDx assays and analysis software for allelic level HLA typing analyses. Under the agreement, GenDx […]

NGS-based Solution Makes Fast, Highly Accurate, Cost-effective Noninvasive Prenatal Testing Available to EU Labs SAN DIEGO—-Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the launch of the VeriSeq™ NIPT Solution, a CE-IVD marked next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based approach to noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), including CE-IVD marked library prep and analysis software, which enables laboratories in the European Union […]

Expansion is Supported by four Broad Patents for Company’s Leap-In Transposase® Technology (Newark, CA) ATUM (formerly DNA2.0) has announced an expansion of its services to include cell line development, which has been enabled by the company’s proprietary Leap-In Transposase genome engineering tools.  ATUM has also begun construction of a new, 7,000 SF mammalian cell engineering […]