News about genomics analysis tools including next generation sequencing, electrophoresis, PCR, and others
– New products for profiling adaptive immunity will be presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) held in Orlando, FL – PLEASANTON, CA.—October 18, 2017— 10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, this week will launch new products for their... Read more
– Linked-Reads will be used to advance precision health and personalized medicine – PLEASANTON, CA and SAINT GEORGE, UT –Intermountain Precision Genomics and 10x Genomics announced today, the addition of Chromium™ Genome Solution to the Translational Science Center (TSC). The center currently houses several of the latest high-throughput next-generation sequencing instruments for large-scale whole genome... Read more
New CRISPR-based Transcriptional Activation and Interference (a/i) Libraries SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 17, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the first expansion of the SureGuide pooled CRISPR libraries for functional genomics, offering pooled libraries for CRISPR activation and interference (CRISPR a/i). The announcement was made at the at the American Society for Human... Read more
Tue 17th October 2017 Oxford Nanopore is developing target enrichment processes for the nanopore sequencing platform, based on the CRISPR/Cas9 system. When coupled with real-time nanopore DNA analysis, these techniques are designed to help users target and resolve specific biological questions more quickly and efficiently than possible with whole genome sequencing. The first participants are... Read more
PerkinElmer Launches chemagic™ Prime™ Instrument for Automated Nucleic Acid Isolation and Assay Set-Up Leverages Advanced Magnetic Bead-Based Technology to Support Next Gen Sequencing, Genotyping, PCR and MLPA in Human Samples WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of its chemagic™ Prime™ instrument, a new streamlined,... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific Customers to Showcase Innovations in Precision Genomics Research for Inherited Disease and Reproductive Health at ASHG AmpliSeq On Demand NGS Panels nearly tripled to 3,000 genes for investigating inherited disease-causing variants CARLSBAD, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Inherited diseases are genetically passed down from parent to child through abnormalities... Read more
– Long-read, real-time DNA and RNA sequencing now available to researchers and clinical scientists through China’s preeminent and most comprehensive CLIA/CAP laboratory – WuXi NextCODE partners can now combine nanopore sequencing and the world’s leading informatics to solve genomics challenges with the potential to improve health SHANGHAI, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — WuXi NextCODE,... Read more
– The 10x Genomics Chromium™ Single Cell 3’ and 5’ RNA Analysis Solutions for scRNA-seq will facilitate pilot projects of the world’s first Human Cell Atlas Project to embark on a comprehensive mapping of cells in the human body – PLEASANTON, CA – OCTOBER 16, 2017 – 10x Genomics and the Human Cell Atlas international... Read more
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the availability of the NovaSeq S4 flow cell, reagent kit and NovaSeq Xp workflow for its NovaSeq™ 6000 System. Flow cell innovation is key to unlocking the power and flexibility of the NovaSeq platform and the release of this new flow cell and workflow extends the capabilities of... Read more
MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A series of publications and initiatives from the genomics community demonstrates the rapid adoption of Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for discovering structural variants throughout the human genome. As these previously overlooked structural variants have been elucidated, there is increasing recognition among scientists of the important... Read more