Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, announced today that Shire has purchased the Beacon platform to accelerate their cell line development (CLD) process. Shire’s decision was based on a study that compared their existing CLD workflow to a workflow using the Beacon. Based on the pilot study, the Beacon […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the Cambridge-based company pioneering an innovative approach to enable scalable and high-fidelity gene synthesis, announced today that it has completed a $12.3 million (£9 million) financing to advance the development of its technology. The financing was co-led by DCVC (Data Collective) of Palo Alto, CA and European-based Draper Esprit, and included […]

Ambry Genetics and Invicro Announce Partnership to Provide Enhanced Capabilities with Advanced Genomics Services to Enable Precision Medicine Partnership provides Pharmaceutical Companies a more Comprehensive Solution in an Effort to Improve Patient Care (Aliso Viejo, CA): Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry), leaders in genetic testing, announced today they will partner with Invicro, a leading provider of […]

DMU students work with local communities on the island A group of science students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU), United Kingdom, have taken part of a recent visit to Bermuda to work on promoting science with the community during a #DMUglobal trip to the island. 18 Biomedical Science, Medical Science and Forensic Science students spent a week in Bermuda […]

Diagenode’s CATS RNA-seq library prep kits and Genialis’ transcriptomics computing platform deliver a “one tube, one click” gene expression analysis solution Denville, NJ, and Liège, Belgium, and Houston, TX Diagenode and Genialis today launched a streamlined RNA-seq data analysis workflow to assess gene expression in low input or degraded RNA samples. The integrated sample-to-analysis workflow […]

Porvair Sciences announces a new and improved Chromatrap® ChIP-Seq kit (v.1.5) that is optimised to work from fresh and frozen extracted tissue as well as cell lines. This latest version of the popular Chromatrap® ChIP-Seq kit enables ChIP to be performed from as little as 50mg of a wide range of extracted tissue samples. The new protocol incorporates optimised lysis and […]

Nature Biotechnology has today published a whole human genome assembly using the MinION nanopore DNA sequencer.  The consortium of researchers, from nine different institutions, demonstrated the most complete human genome generated from a single sequencing technology to date. As part of their assembly, the team were able to accurately estimate telomere lengths and resolve complex repeat […]

Rockville, MD – Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. (MSD) is pleased to announce that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its conventional C-reactive protein (CRP) assay for in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) use in the United States. The assay uses MSD’s proprietary MULTI-ARRAY technology, which has been widely used in […]

Nanopore sequencing technology, based on concepts pioneered at UC Santa Cruz, revealed parts of the genome scientists had been unable to sequence before By Tim Stephens A new nanopore technology for direct sequencing of long strands of DNA has resulted in the most complete human genome ever assembled with a single technology. The research, published January 29 […]

ICE delivers high-throughput, next-gen sequencing quality CRISPR editing analysis Redwood City, California – Synthego, a leading provider of genome engineering solutions, announces today the launch of ICE, a powerful new tool named “Inference of CRISPR Edits.” ICE software offers rapid, reproducible analysis of Sanger data, which costs a hundred times less than next-gen sequencing (NGS). ICE is free […]