Exchange: NASDAQ (KEQU) Contact: Thomas D. Hull III 704/871-3290 STATESVILLE, N.C. October 11, 2017 – PRNewswire /Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (NASDAQ: KEQU) today announced that its Board of Directors have become members of the National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”). The NACD states their vision is to aspire to a world where businesses are sustainable, profitable,... Read more
–10x Genomics’ Chromium™ Exome Solution will be used for whole exome sequencing of 1,500 native Faroese people– PLEASANTON, Calif.—October 10, 2017—10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, and the Faroe Genome Project (FarGen), announced today that the 10x Genomics’ pioneering Chromium™ Exome Solution will be used to... Read more
SAN DIEGO and CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct. 10, 2017 – Edico Genome and the Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research (CPGR) today announced the deployment of the first DRAGENTM Bio-IT platform in Africa. Selected by CPGR to help drive adoption of precision medicine and genomics, DRAGEN will be made available to life science and biotech communities in South Africa. The DRAGEN card is... Read more
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SomaGenics announced the receipt of a Phase I SBIR grant from the NIH to develop RealSeq®-SC (Single Cell), expected to be the first commercially available library preparation kit for profiling small RNAs (including microRNAs) from single cells using NGS methods. The NIH’s recent Single Cell Analysis Program highlights the... Read more
October 10, 2017 – Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics researchers the right tool for the job, launched Hunky today, the one and only complete solution for quantifying biologic stability and predicting aggregation. Hunky measures ΔG, the amount of energy it takes to unfold a protein, letting scientists quantify... Read more
The First Comprehensive Botanical Testing Platform Will Ensure Quality Control/Quality Assurance, and Validation/Verification for Patient Safety and Drug Efficacy in Texas HOUSTON, Oct. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Shimadzu Instrumentation Corporation announces a collaboration with VpH, to establish the Medical Botanical Center of Excellence. The Center represents the first fully comprehensive pharmaceutical grade Medical Botanical Testing Platform in Texas. The... Read more
Aiding the analysis of hereditary disorders by integrating genomic and clinical databases Hilden and Rostock, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, October 09, 2017 –QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and CENTOGENE AG today announced a collaboration and co-marketing agreement to provide customers more complete Sample to Insight research and clinical testing solutions in rare genetic diseases.... Read more
RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands and MENLO PARK, Calif., — October 9th, 2017 — Bluebee, a company driving genomic data-driven medicine, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB), the leader in long-read sequencing, announced they have integrated the PacBio® de novo assembly pipeline onto the Bluebee® genomics analysis platform. The integration creates a simplified workflow and fully... Read more
Novel library prep accelerates the rate and scale of DNA sequencing October 09, 2017 06:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time SAN DIEGO & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iGenomX, an innovator of NGS library preparation technology, announced today the commercial launch of their Riptide™ High-Throughput Rapid Library Prep (HT-RLP) during the American Society of Microbiology’s (ASM) Conference on Rapid Applied... Read more
October 09, 2017 08:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time ASHLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FlowJo, LLC, a bioinformatics and data analysis company with 20 years of experience serving scientists with software for analyzing single-cell data has been awarded the Manufacturing Business of the Year by the Ashland Chamber of Commerce. The award was given in recognition of their commitment... Read more