Genetics & Genomics Business News

Financial news, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and alliances.

Bio-Rad Awarded $24M in 10x Genomics Patent Infringement Lawsuit

The infringement relates to US patents held by the University of Chicago and exclusively licensed to Bio-Rad.

CareDx Prices $49M Common Stock Offering

The firm announced in October that had entered into an agreement with Jefferies to sell up to $50 million in shares from time to time.

BioLegend, VIB Partner on Single-Cell Protein, RNA Analysis Tech

The parties will test and implement BioLegend's TotalSeq antibodies as part of a workflow combing single-cell proteomics with single-cell transcriptomics.

OpGen Posts 26 Percent Revenue Decline in Q3

The company said it expects to submit its Acuitas assay for common causes of urinary tract infections to the US Food and Drug Administration early next year.

Arima Genomics Aims to Reduce Hi-C Sequencing Turnaround Time, Complexity

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The UCSD spinout has developed a modified version of the Hi-C protocol to capture chromatin conformation that uses multiple restriction enzymes.

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Nov 13, 2018

Interpace Diagnostics Q3 Revenues Up 38 Percent

Nov 13, 2018

OncoCyte Q3 Net Loss Narrows

Nov 13, 2018

UPDATE: Biocept Q3 Revenues Drop 31 Percent as Test Volume Shrinks

Nov 13, 2018

Trace Genomics Raises $13M in Series A Financing Round

Nov 13, 2018

Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostic Platform That Skips Need for Amplification Being Developed at UCLA

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Nov 13, 2018

Bio-Rad Wins USDA Food Safety Testing Contract

Nov 13, 2018

Health Canada Approves Two BCR-ABL Tests

Nov 13, 2018

Guardant Health, Core Diagnostics Team Up to Offer Liquid Biopsy in India

Nov 12, 2018

Oxford BioDynamics Forms Autism Biomarker Alliance

Nov 09, 2018

Illumina's Proposed PacBio Acquisition Leaves Customers Cautiously Optimistic

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Nov 08, 2018

HTG Molecular Diagnostics Q3 Revenues Jump 27 Percent

Nov 08, 2018

Natera's Q3 Revenues Climb 17 Percent

Nov 08, 2018

NanoString Q3 Revenues Up 6 Percent

Nov 08, 2018

CareDx Q3 Revenues Up 74 Percent

Nov 08, 2018

Rna Diagnostics Raises $5M in Series A Financing Round

Nov 08, 2018

SpeeDx Signs Distributions Deals Across Europe

Nov 08, 2018

Meridian Bioscience Q4 Revenues Grow 7 Percent

Nov 08, 2018

Illumina, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Partner on Precision Medicine Report

Nov 08, 2018

Berry Genomics, Prenetics to Form Chinese Consumer Genomics JV

Nov 07, 2018

Invitae Q3 Revenues More Than Double

Breaking News

The Scan

Halt Under Consideration

The United Nations is to consider a ban on field testing gene drives at a meeting being held next week, Technology Review reports.

How's It Going to Go Over?

The Associated Press reports that gene-edited food may soon be for sale.

Meetings on Fetal Research

The US Department of Health and Human Services is beginning a series of meetings on human fetal tissue research, Stat News reports.

This Week in Cell

In Cell this week: epigenetic change linked to glioblastomas, rare and low-frequency variants contributing to multiple sclerosis risk, and more.