The new system, called BODE 2, will launch at the end of this year and will replace the existing BODE for the analysis of "big omics" data for research.
The pilot seeks to enroll 100 All of Us participants who are pregnant into the ongoing NICHD's PregSource initiative, which collects patient-reported data.
Last week, GenomeWeb's readers were most interested in Illumina's proposal to offer perpetual, royalty-free licenses to Pacific Biosciences' intellectual property.
BD said TRC Capital Investment had made an unsolicited offer to BD shareholders to buy up to 500,000 shares of BD's stock at a price below the current market value.
Mitochondrial sequences suggest some haplogroups found in Finland today arrived in the region pre-Iron Age, though population distributions have shifted.
Genotypes for more than 12,000 individuals from the Americas revealed contributions from European colonization, the Atlantic slave trade, and other migrations.
The partners will evaluate circulating tumor cell-based biomarker panels as potential new tests for use on Ikonisys' Ikoniscope fluorescence microscopy system.
Sequencing and other experiments on barcoded Plasmodium berghei mutant strains helped researchers narrow in on key metabolic pathways in the parasite's liver stage.
The company signed a distribution agreement in Japan for its Idylla products and also initiated a listing of €150 million in unsecured convertible bonds.
The firm said that in a first phase of the contract it will focus on further development of its fever test that analyzes immune system gene expression patterns.
Bioethicists disagree with a research team's decision to allow the return of risk results for adult-onset conditions from a newborn sequencing project, according to Reuters.
Nature News reports that additional South Korean researchers have included the names of children on scientific papers when they did not contribute to the work.
In PLOS this week: statistical approach to prioritize rare variant searches, gene expression alterations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more.
