-Expanding Our Portfolio and Reinforcing Our Technology Base in the Life Science Business- Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) has reached an agreement with Oxford Gene Technology IP Limited (HQ: Oxfordshire county, United Kingdom; CEO: Michael Evans; “OGT”) to acquire all shares in OGT (the “Acquisition”). Through this move, Sysmex aims […]

Diverse maize, soybean, wheat, canola and cotton genotypes among those mapped Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic mapping, assembly, and referencing, has assembled 300 genomes of major crop plants in less than two years, enabling the highly accurate genome comparisons required to breed better seeds. Before NRGene’s technology, individual genomes took years […]

Dr. Kimothy Smith served as Senior Advisor for International Biodefense at Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — PositiveID Corporation (OTC:PSIDD), a Life Sciences company focused on detection and diagnostics, announced today its wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR Corporation, has named Dr. Kimothy Smith its Chief Science Officer. Dr. Smith, a recognized […]

PositiveID’s new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR, to provide platform for partnership and financing opportunities DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID”) (OTC:PSIDD), a Life Sciences company focused on detection and diagnostics, announced today it has formed a new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR Corporation, a Delaware corporation, to own and further the development of the Firefly […]

OGT’s unique hybridisation expertise takes researchers from sample to sequencer in a single day Oxford, UK. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has made several advances in hybridisation-based target enrichment protocols that now enable researchers to prepare samples for sequencing in just one day. Researchers can now access the high-quality results of hybridisation-based targeted […]

Adoption of screening method points to reliability for identifying food-borne illness sources   May 24, 2017 – Camarillo, CA – Health Canada, the country’s national health agency, has included Hygiena’s BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay as a validated method to screen surfaces for Listeria species, a potentially harmful group of microbes that is a common cause of food-borne illness. […]

PositiveID’s new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR, to provide platform for partnership and financing opportunities  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID”) (OTC:PSIDD), a Life Sciences company focused on detection and diagnostics, announced today it has formed a new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR Corporation, a Delaware corporation, to own and further the development of the Firefly […]

Talks and Papers Previewed at PMWC 2017 and SFAF Conferences Advance Nabsys’ Mission to Democratize Structural Information PROVIDENCE, RI – Nabsys, a genomics company pioneering high-definition mapping of genomes using high-resolution, high-speed nanodetectors, today shared performance of its new electronic HD-Mapping™ platform and its ability to identify structural variation in both microbial and human genomes. […]

SAN DIEGO – Edico Genome today announced it has collaborated with Illumina to make DRAGEN™ available on BaseSpace® Sequence Hub. DRAGEN delivers extremely high accuracy at ultra-rapid speeds, enabling a whole human genome to be analyzed in under 10 minutes. BaseSpace Sequence Hub is a cloud-based platform that extends Illumina instruments for the acquisition and […]

OAKLAND, Calif. & BOSTON & COPENHAGEN, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company offering data analysis and clinical reporting tools, announced today that it has partnered with data management company ITTM S.A. (Information Technology for Translational Medicine) to provide secure genomic data hosting capabilities for EU customers. By combining Fabric Genomics’ leading analysis tools […]