Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that Dr. Klaus Lun, Head of Corporate Development and a member of the Management Board of the Tecan Group since June 2013, has been appointed Head of the Life Sciences Business division. On December 14, 2016, Tecan announced that Dr. Stefan Traeger, Head of […]

Cambridge, UK: Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation products and services, today announced the launch of the Conjugate Check&Go! Kit, the company’s first lateral flow product specific to antibody labeling. The new kit allows scientists to confirm, in one easy step, whether an antibody has been successfully conjugated before moving on to more extensive […]

Combines award-winning Chromium™ System from 10x Genomics with PerkinElmer’s state-of-the-art automation solutions PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics, Inc., a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced they and PerkinElmer, Inc. will jointly offer automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions. PerkinElmer’s automation solutions increase both the throughput and efficiency of […]

High Throughput Sequencing Instruments Capable of Transforming Genomics to Improve Human Health at an Unprecedented Scale Illumina NovaSeq 6000 System SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), the global leader in next-generation sequencing technology, today introduced the NovaSeqTM Series, a new and scalable sequencing architecture expected one day to enable a $100 genome. Unveiled at the J.P. […]

– Effort will sequence the genomes of 45,000 participants from across Ireland to identify novel targets and advance the clinical development of better treatments for a range of serious diseases – Focus is on key AbbVie therapeutic areas including oncology, neuroscience and immunology – Genomics Medicine Ireland will partner with Ireland’s leading clinicians and researchers […]

CROMWELL, Conn. & WINDSOR, Conn.–Biological Industries USA, Inc. (BI‐USA) and Rainbow Scientific, Inc. announced today a co‐promotion and sales agreement that grants Rainbow Scientific both promotion and sales rights to BI-USA’s range of cytogenetic products to the clinical laboratory market. “Rainbow Scientific has been a leading distributor to hospital laboratories, medical reference laboratories, and clinical […]

Structural Variant Detection, De Novo Assembly and Targeted Sequencing Applications Improved MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) today announced a new version of chemistry (V2) and software (V4) for the Sequel™ System. The new release improves the system’s ability to support important applications such as structural variant detection and targeted sequencing— including […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The COPD Foundation-sponsored COPD Biomarker Qualification Consortium (CBQC) today announced that it has partnered with the Bio-Techne Corporation, a manufacturer of biotechnology products for life science research and diagnostics. The partnership was established to evaluate the suitability of a soluble form of receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) as a predictive biomarker […]

SAN DIEGO & HERCULES, Calif.– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:BIO) (NYSE:BIOb) today announced the launch of the Illumina® Bio-Rad® Single-Cell Sequencing Solution at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The comprehensive solution is the first next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow for single-cell analysis, providing researchers the ability to investigate the coordinated contribution of individual cells in tissue function, disease progression, and therapeutic response. […]

Data interpretation from Watson will help users translate genomic data  from  Illumina TruSight® Tumor 170; offering to be available early in 2017 SAN FRANCISCO – IBM Watson Health (NYSE:IBM) and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced a groundbreaking partnership to  expand access to genome data interpretation by integrating Watson for Genomics into  Illumina’s BaseSpace Sequence Hub and tumor sequencing […]