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Breaking news on Genetics & Genomics business, policy & funding.

Roddenberry Foundation Grants $1.2M to Elypta, Avalo, Thylacine Biosciences

Early cancer detection firm Elypta won the $1.0 million grand prize, while Thylacine Biosciences and Avalo were each awarded $100,000. 

SomaLogic CEO Steps Down Amid Board Turnover; Firm's Q4 Revenues Drop 18 Percent

Ex-CEO Roy Smythe is one of three people stepping down from the board. He will be replaced by Adam Taich, formerly executive VP of life sciences at SomaLogic.

Genialis Closes $13M Series A Funding Round

Machine learning firm Genialis will use the new financing to beef up its ResponderID software and related catalog of clinically validated cancer biomarkers.

Acutis Diagnostics to Integrate Sophia Genetics Analytics Into Hereditary Cancer NGS Assay

Acutis will embed Sophia's DDM analytics platform into a new test to screen patients for clinical trial enrollment and support outcomes analysis.

Lucira Health Combo Flu/COVID-19 MDx Test Gets Regulatory Approval in Australia

The firm also announced the US launch of its combo test as it seeks a strategic or financial partner following Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Mar 28, 2023

Atrandi Biosciences Raises $4.8M to Advance Commercialization of Single-Cell Microfluidics Tech

Mar 28, 2023

Burning Rock Q4 Revenues Down 4 Percent Due to COVID-19 Resurgence in China

Mar 28, 2023

Todos Medical Subsidiary Inks US Commercialization Deal for Acumen Diagnostics Sepsis PCR Test

Mar 28, 2023

Factorial Biotechnologies, Watchmaker Genomics Partner for In-Cell Library Prep Technology

Mar 27, 2023

OraSure Technologies, nRichDX Collaborate on Urine Collection Device for Cell-Free DNA

Mar 27, 2023

DiaSorin 2022 Revenues Grow 10 Percent

Mar 27, 2023

Top Five Articles on GenomeWeb Last Week: Layoffs, Illumina Rebuts Icahn, Beethoven's Genome, More

Mar 24, 2023

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: Stilla Technologies, Dante Genomics, Bio-Rad Laboratories, More

Mar 24, 2023

People in the News at Gencove, Biocept, Yourgene, Akoya Biosciences, and More

Mar 24, 2023

William Blair Initiates Coverage of MDxHealth With Outperform Rating

Mar 24, 2023

White House Report Outlines Goals to Advance Genomic Research, Precision Therapy Development

Mar 24, 2023

In Brief This Week: Applied DNA Clinical Labs, Enzo Biochem, Alveo Technologies

Mar 23, 2023

Lunaphore Raises CHF 40M in Series D Financing

Mar 22, 2023

Invitae, Deerfield Management Partner to Mine Test Data for Rare Disease Drug Development

Mar 22, 2023

Massive Bio, NeoGenomics Collaborate on AI-Driven Oncology Clinical Trial Matching

Mar 21, 2023

Layoffs at Life Science, Dx Firms Continue as Thermo Fisher Scientific, Natera Shrink Payrolls

Mar 21, 2023

Previse Launches Esophageal Cancer Risk Test, Raises $3M to Support Commercial Expansion

Mar 21, 2023

Oxford Nanopore Sees COVID Testing Boom in 2022 as Emirati Genome Program Revenue Declines
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Mar 21, 2023

Guardant Health, Ohio State University Partner on Blood-Based Colon Cancer Screening Study

Mar 21, 2023

Invitae, Epic Sign Deal to Integrate Genetic Test Results Into EMR System

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Study Examines Insights Gained by Adjunct Trio RNA Sequencing in Complex Pediatric Disease Cases

Researchers in AJHG explore the diagnostic utility of adding parent-child RNA-seq to genome sequencing in dozens of families with complex, undiagnosed genetic disease.

Clinical Genomic Lab Survey Looks at Workforce Needs

Investigators use a survey approach in Genetics in Medicine Open to assess technologist applications, retention, and workforce gaps at molecular genetics and clinical cytogenetics labs in the US.

Study Considers Gene Regulatory Features Available by Sequence-Based Modeling

Investigators in Genome Biology set sequence-based models against observational and perturbation assay data, finding distal enhancer models lag behind promoter predictions.

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.