Saluggia, Italy and Männedorf, Switzerland – DiaSorin (FTSE Italy Mid Cap: DIA) and Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that they have agreed to collaborate in a development under which DiaSorin will make use of Tecan’s Fluent® Laboratory Automation Solution as its Nucleic Acid extraction platform. The new platform will be used in combination […]

Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain to Create New AI Models that Help Identify Food Hazards before Outbreaks Occur ARMONK, N. Y. and ITHACA, N. Y.: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cornell University, a leader in dairy research, today announced a new collaboration using next-generation sequencing combined with bioinformatics designed to help reduce the chances that the […]

 ST. LOUIS — Canopy BiosciencesTM, LLC (“Canopy Biosciences”), an emerging provider of gene editing and personalized medicine technologies, announced a distributor agreement with Cosmo Bio Co., Ltd. (“Cosmo Bio“) for its TUNR Flexible Gene Editing technology in Japan.  Cosmo Bio is one of Japan’s largest and most established reagents and services suppliers in the life science industry, […]

SMRT Sequencing Offers Significant Improvements for Reference Genomes at Much Lower Cost MENLO PARK, Calif. — A new publication in Nature reveals the significant quality improvement afforded by Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for the maize genome, with implications for other complex crop and livestock genomes. This new PacBio® genome assembly, produced by scientists at Cold Spring […]

Oncomine Dx Target Test returns results in days, helping physicians rapidly develop treatment plans for the most common form of lung cancer CARLSBAD, Calif. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific for the first next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based test  that simultaneously screens tumor samples for biomarkers associated with […]

Budapest, Hungary – University of Debrecen (UD), Hungary and BGI Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding, Tuesday 20th June, regarding cooperation on the establishment of a local NGS sequencing hub for local population cohort studies and diagnostic testing, and wider collaboration in the research and development of genetic and genomic sciences. The MOU was signed […]

LONDON, ON – 3M announced today that Health Canada has approved and published the next-generation 3M Molecular Detection System assay for Listeria detection. Based on isothermal DNA amplification and bioluminescence detection – the same combination of advanced technologies used in all 3M Molecular Detection Assays – these assays use new chemistry to deliver accurate results with shorter […]

HERCULES, Calif. — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), today announced the launch of ddPCR™ Genome Edit Detection Assays, the first tests to characterize edits generated by CRISPR-Cas9 or other genome editing tools using Bio-Rad’s Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) technology. Users can specify their sequences and order assays through Bio-Rad’s Digital Assay Site. Successful genome editing is […]