October 17, 2017 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches chemagic Prime Instrument for Automated Nucleic Acid Isolation and Assay Set-Up

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

October 17, 2017 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools PR/Corporate

Thermo Fisher Scientific Customers to Showcase Innovations in Precision Genomics Research for Inherited Disease and Reproductive Health at ASHG

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

October 17, 2017 Life Science Tools

WuXi NextCODE Integrates Oxford Nanopore into the Global Platform for Genomic Data

– 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

October 16, 2017 Life Science Tools

Recent Projects Highlight Success of SMRT Sequencing for Characterizing Structural Variation in Human Genomes

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

October 13, 2017 Life Science Tools

QIAGEN bioinformatics and NGS solutions enable genomic breakthroughs

Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, October 12, 2017 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its Sample to Insight solutions, from next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to bioinformatics solutions for research and clinical testing, figure prominently in independent studies presented this week at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual... Read more

October 12, 2017 Life Science Tools

China welcomes Oxford Nanopore technology 中国市场喜迎牛津纳米孔技术

Thu 12th October 2017 中文版 October 2017: Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology is now available in China. The long-read, real-time, portable MinION sequencer is now being used by researchers across China, who are working on myriad DNA sequencing applications including: pathogen research, human genetics, plant genetics, animal genetics and metagenomics. Chinese researchers are also preparing to start cDNA and... Read more

October 12, 2017 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

10x Genomics Announces Automated Workflow for Dried Blood Spot and Saliva for Linked-Read Sequencing.

–Automated workflow will enable population and genetic health studies– PLEASANTON, Calif.—October 12, 2017—10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced a new automation solution for whole genome and exome sequencing developed in collaboration with PerkinElmer, Inc. The new workflow allows Linked-Read sequencing to be performed on... Read more

October 12, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Swift Launches Accel-Amplicon™ Custom NGS Panels, Accelerating Variant Discovery in Challenging Biological Samples

Genialis/Swift partnership delivers a complete targeted sequencing solution with intuitive analysis software (ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Oct. 12, 2017) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced the launch of its Accel-Amplicon™ Custom NGS Panels. These new panels offer a targeted DNA sequencing product that enables clinical researchers to... Read more