Subsidized technology available as global bodies call for sequencing to confirm COVID-19 mutations CARLSBAD, Calif. — As scientists continue to identify new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including the B.1.1.7 UK variant that studies suggest is more transmissible, genetic sequencing is being used to track these strains and new ones that are emerging, as well as to trace […]

RoosterBio’s innovative hMSCs and bioprocess media systems, coupled with Sartorius’s scalable closed system bioreactor, downstream processing, and analytics, offers end-to-end hMSC manufacturing solutions for the field of regenerative medicine. FREDERICK, Md. — RoosterBio Inc., a leading supplier of human mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (hMSC) working cell banks, highly engineered media and hMSC bioprocess systems, today announces […]

— RNA Controls Can Help Avoid False Negative Results — SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced that it has started shipping its new synthetic RNA reference controls, which includes the new variant […]

Expanded R&D and product development support to help therapeutics developers get to market faster Hollister, CA – Teknova—a leading manufacturer of cell culture media and supplements, purification buffers, and molecular biology reagents—welcomes Dr Neal Goodwin as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Neal brings 20 years’ experience in biotechnology and therapeutics, with tenures including CSO of Machavert […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, today announced a multi-year collaboration with Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, to begin development of a production-scale high-throughput sequencing platform leveraging the power of PacBio’s highly accurate HiFi sequencing to expand Invitae’s […]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies and NVIDIA are collaborating this year to integrate the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s ultra-high throughput sequencing system, PromethION.  Partnering the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU technology with the PromethION device aims to deliver the world’s most powerful sequencer that supports real-time analyses at scale, and can also analyse any […]

Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Clinical Decision-Making Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Tumor Profiling Assays can be Combined with Clinical Informatics Platform with Potential to Reduce Time to Results and Complexity of Clinical Genomic Analysis Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration […]

BOSTON — NanoView Biosciences, Inc., the leader in single exosome characterization, today announced the expansion of its management team with the appointment of David Hanlon, Ph.D. to the position of Vice President, Strategic Collaborations.   The addition is a key part of the company’s strategy to create and expand strategic partnerships within the life sciences, pharmaceutical and diagnostics […]

The BD® AbSeq Immune Discovery Panel enables researchers to execute single cell experiments with high efficiency FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial release of the BD® AbSeq Immune Discovery Panel (IDP), a state-of-the-art, pre-titrated antibody-oligo based discovery tool designed to investigate 30 immune […]

Investors include Baird Capital, Arboretum Ventures and LYZZ Capital; funding will accelerate commercialization of CRISPRclean™ next-generation sequencing technology Life sciences industry veteran Frank Witney joins Jumpcode Board of Directors Jumpcode opens new headquarters in San Diego biotech business hub SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Jumpcode Genomics – a genome technology company focused on improving the understanding of human […]