SAN FRANCISCO — Today Color announced an initiative to help build the foundation for the first mainstream application of whole genome sequencing in clinical care, through the use of polygenic risk scores. Polygenic risk scoring can help clinicians identify populations who are at risk for diseases such as cancer and heart disease in order to optimize prevention […]

 –Subsidiary of BGI Group Will Distribute CleanPlex® NGS Target Enrichment Panels Optimized for Its MGISEQ and BGISEQ Sequencing Platforms in All Territories Outside the U.S.– –Paragon Genomics Will Distribute MGI’s Automated Sample Preparation Systems in the U.S. and Canada with Optimized CleanPlex Chemistries Providing a Complete Automated Solution– HAYWARD, CA – Paragon Genomics, Inc., a […]

Comprehensive pan-cancer tumor profiling assays to be combined with clinical informatics platform with the potential to reduce time, cost, and complexity of clinical genomic analysis ST. LOUIS–PierianDx, a leading clinical genomics informatics company, today announced a strategic, non-exclusive, multi-year partnership with Illumina, Inc. to provide a variant interpretation and reporting solution based on PierianDx’s Clinical Genomics […]

CoreBiome leverages OraSure’s leadership position in microbiome sample collection with end-to-end laboratory services for sample processing, sequencing, and bioinformatics Novosanis’ urine collection technology expands molecular collection portfolio and advances OraSure’s expertise in non-invasive sampling BETHLEHEM, Pa. — OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), a leader in point of care diagnostic tests and specimen collection and stabilization devices, today […]

San Francisco, Jan. 4, 2019: SOPHiA GENETICS, a leading health tech company, announced today the closing of a $77 million investment round to accelerate the democratization of Data- Driven Medicine. The round was led by Generation Investment Management, a pioneer of sustainable investing, with offices in London and San Francisco. Generation were joined by Idinvest Partners, […]

Fujifilm is investing in the cGMP-compliant facility located in Madison, Wisconsin with the goal to begin operations by March 2020 MADISON, Wis. — FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (FCDI), a US subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) and a leading global developer and manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell technologies, has announced an investment of about $21 […]

Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), the leader in digital cell biology, announced today that it has entered into a collaboration to explore multiple lines of inquiry aimed at advancing cellular therapies, including CAR-T therapeutics, with Megan Suhoski Davis, Director of the Product Development Laboratory (PDL) within the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies in the University of […]

MADISON, Wis.–Promega Corporation’s latest microsatellite instability (MSI) technology has been granted innovation designation by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Promega MSI technology has been validated in labs around the world. With innovation status, the path to become classified as an invitro diagnostic (IVD) will gain elevated efficiency by having a program coordinator assigned […]

AMSBIO has expanded its range of Wingless/Integrated (Wnt) recombinant proteins, stable reporter cell lines, antibodies and ELISA kits to assist researchers in the fields of developmental biology and oncology. The Wnt family of cysteine-rich secreted polypeptides comprise more than 16 mammalian family members involved in several important cell functions such as cell cell-cell communication, proliferation, migration, […]

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc. (President: Yutaka Yamaguchi, FISI), a US subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno), and a leading company in cell culture media, today announced that on January 1, 2019 in the United States, the company changed its name from Irvine Scientific Sales Company, Inc.   The new company name combines the “FUJIFILM” […]