COLOGNE, Germany & LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, England–Ncardia, a leader in human iPSC-based solutions for drug safety and efficacy screening, and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a global leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announced a partnership to provide custom genetically modified and differentiated human iPSC-derived cells (hiPSC) for drug discovery researchers. […]

AMSBIO has expanded its range of high quality FFPE cancer cell line controls for immunohistochemistry (IHC), in situ hybridization (ISH) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications. Variations in FFPE tissue sample quality and experimental setup can lead to misleading results without reliable controls. Traditional cell or tissue-based control specimens often present intra specimen variation, lot-to-lot variations […]

SAN DIEGO— Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announces the launch of TruSightTM Oncology 500 (TSO 500), a comprehensive pan-cancer assay designed to identify known and emerging tumor biomarkers. TruSight Oncology 500 utilizes both DNA and RNA from subject tumor samples to identify key somatic variants underlying tumor progression, such as small DNA variants, fusions, and splice variants. Importantly, […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced that it has priced its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $14.00 per share, before underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the shares of common stock are […]

SALT LAKE CITY–Privately held XCR Diagnostics Inc. and Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq:LMNX) have entered into a non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement for XCR’s proprietary Xtreme Chain Reaction nucleic acid amplification technology. The XCR technology enables extremely rapid thermal cycling protocols to achieve dramatically reduced assay turnaround times compared to traditional polymerase chain reaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. “XCR […]

ITHACA, N.Y.—Rheonix, Inc. announces the launch of its NGS OnePrep™ solution, an integrated, automated method for DNA extraction and next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation on the Encompass Optimum™ workstation, at the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting and Expo Nov.1-3 in San Antonio, Texas. The method will allow laboratory technicians to produce sequence-ready libraries […]

Poietis, the first 4D bioprinting company, announces the commercialization of its new range of NGB systems («Next Generation Bioprinting») to cover all the tissue engineering needs, from research to clinical batches production. Pessac, FRANCE For more than four years, Poietis has been invested in the development of the NGB 4D bioprinting platform to meet the […]

HERCULES, Calif. — A recent study published online in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics demonstrated that Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) technology can be used to detect mutations in a region of our DNA that is linked to many cancer types, paving the way for the development of new cancer diagnostics and therapies. Two mutations in the promoter region of […]

Co-Diagnostics agrees to license CoPrimers™ for use in agricultural applications SALT LAKE CITY–Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, proprietary platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, and LGC, Biosearch Technologies, a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of sophisticated, custom oligonucleotide-based tools and associated reagents for applied markets, announced […]

BOLOGNA, Italy and HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. — Menarini-Silicon Biosystems announced today that it will launch the DEPArray™ FFPE SamplePrep Kit at the upcoming annual meeting of the Association of Molecular Pathology. The DEPArray SamplePrep Kit is the first commercially available kit for the disaggregation and staining of FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) tissue sections down to a single-cell suspension. The kit enables the detection, identification, […]