Is now one of the only ISO certified third-party sequencer maintenance and resale companies TORRANCE, Calif. — SeqGen, Inc., a worldwide DNA sequencer and qPCR maintenance and equipment sales company, has achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification. Through meeting the standards for this certification, SeqGen has demonstrated its ability to provide products and services […]

AUSTIN, Texas − Asuragen, Inc., a global molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for the development and commercialization of capillary electrophoresis-based in vitro diagnostics (IVDs). Asuragen will leverage its AmplideX® PCR/CE product technologies to develop diagnostic kits for the 3500 Dx Series Genetic Analyzer CS2 instrument. […]

Cambridge Research Biochemicals® (CRB), a longstanding British company specialising in the synthesis of custom peptides and the generation of bespoke antibodies for pharmaceutical and medical research, today announced the release of its new DISCOVERY® Antibodies catalogue. This ties in with the three year anniversary of CRB’s expansion and relocation which took place in January 2014 […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that John W. Thompson will join the company’s Board of Directors on May 3, 2017, bringing extensive technology leadership experience to the company. Mr. Thompson’s executive leadership experience includes having served in chief executive officer roles at Symantec and Virtual Instruments, as well as 28 years of […]

Uppsala, Sweden – Olink Proteomics today announced the launch of three new precision proteomics panels, further expanding its rapidly growing library of high quality human protein biomarker assays to almost 1000. The focus areas for these three new panels are Cardiometabolic, Cell Regulation and Development. For scientists in academic/clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry, this […]

Investors include HBM Genomics and Viking Global Investors Company to expand commercial efforts for its proprietary primary cell culture platform across cancer, stem cell, immunology, cell manufacturing, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine applications SAN FRANCISCO—-Xcell Biosciences announced today the company has closed a $12 million Series A private equity financing round. The financing was led […]

An upgrade of the MinION software, MinKNOW, has been released to the nanopore community. MinKNOW 1.4.2 provides several improvements and new features: Experiment control parameters have been optimised to increase the volume of sequence data obtained from each nanopore channel. Recent internal experiments using MinKNOW 1.4 have generated as much as 17Gb from one MinION Flow […]

Tokyo, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) has been in collaboration with Promega Corporation, a leading manufacturer of reagents used for human identification by DNA*1 analysis, regarding a compact capillary electrophoresis (CE) sequencer. Genetic analysis laboratories make use of first-generation CE sequencers and next-generation sequencers that use massively parallel processing to enable […]

Consortium to advance human iPSC-derived cell-based assay platform for metabolism analysis in preclinical drug discovery and development Cork, Ireland, Cologne, Germany, Ortenberg, Germany – Three European technology SME’s, together with two internationally recognised research institutions, Oxford University and Imperial College London, have been awarded €2.5m funding from the European commission under the H2020 Fast Track […]

Results from Mount Sinai, Washington University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories to be presented at AGBT 2017 General Meeting (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences today announced the commercial release of its Accel-NGS® XL Library Prep Kit, the fastest sequencing solution for whole genome sequencing on Pacific Biosciences (PacBio®) platforms. This library preparation kit, specially optimized for […]