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Automation/Liquid Handling

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Integra Biosciences Acquires Miroculus

Miroculus has been developing microfluidics-based sample automation platforms for next-generation sequencing and launched its instrument in 2020.

RevoluGen, Tecan Ink Deal for Automated High Molecular Weight DNA Extraction Tech

The agreement will allow RevoluGen to launch the automated version of its Fire Monkey high molecular weight DNA extraction kit early next year.

Integrated DNA Technologies, Beckman Coulter Ink Distribution Deal for NGS Library Prep System

Under the terms of the deal, IDT will distribute Beckman Coulter's Biomek NGenius next-generation sequencing library prep system.

Pacific Biosciences Partners with Japan's iLAC, RBI on Automated Sequencing Workflows

The automated workflows will use the Robotic Biology Institute's LabDroid to support whole-genome sequencing, targeted sequencing, and RNA isoform sequencing.

Tecan Releases Fully Automated NGS Library Prep Platform for Illumina Systems
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Tecan touts the new platform, named MagicPrep NGS, as providing push-button NGS library prep while being user-friendly, reliable, and reproducible.

Mar 28, 2022

Sequencing Sample Prep Startup Inso Biosciences Raises $2.2M in Pre-Seed Financing

Mar 24, 2022

Volta Labs, Miroculus Independently Harness Electrowetting for Automated NGS Sample Prep
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Mar 17, 2022

Volta Labs Raises $20M in Series A Financing Round

Feb 15, 2022

Illumina, Beckman Coulter Partner on Application Development for NGS Library Prep Instrument

Feb 8, 2022

Becton Dickinson Advancing Rapid Image-Based Cell Sorting Tech
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Jan 27, 2022

Hamilton, Pacific Biosciences Partner on Automating DNA Sample Prep

Jan 13, 2022

NanoString Technologies Touts Interest in CosMx Spatial Biology Platform at JPM

Dec 21, 2021

Nicoya Lifesciences to Further Develop Alto SPR Platform, Enter International Markets
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Dec 16, 2021

Protein Analysis Firm Nicoya Raises C$20M in Extended Series A Financing Round

Nov 18, 2021

Ikonisys Launches Next Generation of CTC Detection, Analysis Platform; Expands US Presence
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Nov 10, 2021

Cellenion Expands Automated Cell Sorting Market, Targets Spheroids
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Oct 26, 2021

DNA Script Raises $165M in Series C Funding Round

Oct 1, 2021

Bico to Aquire QInstruments for $71M

Jan 28, 2021

Mammoth Biosciences, Agilent to Comarket CRISPR-Based SARS-CoV-2 Test

Oct 5, 2020

Berkeley Lights Helps Researchers Connect Genomic, Functional Characteristics of Cells
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Aug 6, 2020

Genedrive, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Partner on Automated PCR Testing for SARS-CoV-2

May 21, 2020

Genomic, Synthetic Bio Platforms Power COVID-19 Antibody Discovery at Vanderbilt Lab
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Feb 25, 2020

ReadCoor Launches Spatial Multiomics Platform at AGBT
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Feb 14, 2020

BGI Distributes More Than 230K Coronavirus Test Kits

Nov 8, 2019

Agilent's Magnis Joins Set-and-Forget Movement in Library Prep Instruments
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Genetic Testing Approach Explores Origins of Blastocyst Aneuploidy

Investigators in AJHG distinguish between aneuploidy events related to meiotic missegregation in haploid cells and those involving post-zygotic mitotic errors and mosaicism.

Study Looks at Parent Uncertainties After Children's Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diagnoses

A qualitative study in EJHG looks at personal, practical, scientific, and existential uncertainties in parents as their children go through SCID diagnoses, treatment, and post-treatment stages.

Antimicrobial Resistance Study Highlights Key Protein Domains

By screening diverse versions of an outer membrane porin protein in Vibrio cholerae, researchers in PLOS Genetics flagged protein domain regions influencing antimicrobial resistance.

Latent HIV Found in White Blood Cells of Individuals on Long-Term Treatments

Researchers in Nature Microbiology find HIV genetic material in monocyte white blood cells and in macrophages that differentiated from them in individuals on HIV-suppressive treatment.
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