December 6, 2018 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Illumina Announces a New Genotyping Array and Scientific Contribution to Three Genome Centers to Support the All of Us Research Program

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the launch of its new high-density genotyping array, the Infinium™ Global Diversity Array. This new array was developed for and inspired by the All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in... Read more

December 3, 2018 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Informatics & Software Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

NRGene Announces Expanded Licensing Agreement with Bayer for the GenoMAGIC Platform

Following successful evaluation, Bayer has chosen the GenoMAGICTM platform to support its advanced molecular breeding program in several key crops Ness Ziona, Israel – (December 3, 2018) –NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic analysis, announces a key milestone in its multi-year licensing agreement with Bayer for the use of GenoMAGICTM, a cloud-based big data analytics platform... Read more

November 29, 2018 Life Science Tools Microscopy Product Launch

QIAGEN launches QCI Interpret bioinformatics features for use for blood cancers as well as a novel myeloid gene panel for GeneReader NGS System

Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, November 29, 2018 – QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of two novel products to deliver actionable insights on a wide range of blood cancers: a new workflow for the QIAGEN Clinical Insight (QCI) Interpret bioinformatics solution for hematological malignancies, and the new QIAact Myeloid... Read more

November 28, 2018 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Swift Biosciences Launches Normalase™, Radically Streamlining and Improving NGS Library Normalization

(ANN ARBOR, Mich. – November 28, 2018) Swift Biosciences today announced the availability of its eagerly anticipated Normalase™ Kit, a revolutionary enzymatic library normalization product that streamlines the cumbersome steps following next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation. Compared to conventional normalization, Swift Normalase saves cost on sequencing by reducing read depth variation within a pool down to... Read more

November 28, 2018 Life Science Tools

QIAGEN extends comprehensive offering for cervical cancer screening with European launch of QIAscreen HPV PCR Test

Hilden, Germany, November 28, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of the QIAscreen HPV PCR Test, a CE-IVD marked molecular diagnostic test for the detection of 15 recognized high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus considered to be the cause of cervical cancer. The assay includes... Read more

November 27, 2018 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools PR/Corporate

MilliporeSigma Wins Two R&D 100 Awards for Innovation in 2018

27 NOV 2018 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY MilliporeSigma’s proxy-CRISPR wins Special Recognition Market Disruptor — Products award Burlington, Massachusetts, November 27, 2018 – MilliporeSigma today announced that it has won two R&D 100 Awards. The 56th annual R&D 100 Awards program, honoring the 100 most innovative and significant technologies introduced in the past year, recognized MilliporeSigma for its BioReliance® Viral and Gene Therapy Assay... Read more

November 26, 2018 Life Science Tools PR/Corporate

Twist Bioscience Appoints Experienced Technology Executive Jan Johannessen to Board of Directors

November 26, 2018 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced the appointment of Jan Johannessen to the company’s board of directors. He will also serve as chair of the audit committee. Mr. Johannessen brings more... Read more

November 26, 2018 Life Science Tools PR/Corporate

NML appointed as expert laboratory for viral EQA schemes by INSTAND e.V.

26 NOV 2018 Tags:  Chemical, Biological, Measurement, National Measurement Institute We are delighted to announce that the UK’s National Measurement Laboratory (NML), hosted at LGC, has recently been appointed as an expert laboratory by the external quality assurance testing provider INSTAND e.V. The appointment, which covers external quality assurance in the field of virus genome detection, recognises the NML’s... Read more

November 14, 2018 Life Science Tools

PacBio’s SMRT Sequencing Provides Unprecedented Insight into Genome of Disease-causing Mosquito

Improved Reference Genome for Aedes aegypti, Carrier of Zika Virus and Other Public Health Threats, Published in NatureMENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that an international team of scientists have published the highest... Read more