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Myriad Genetics Q2 Revenues Decrease 10 Percent; CEO Mark Capone Steps Down

The company attributed its revenue shortfall to billing issues in the prenatal testing business and announced that CFO Bryan Riggsbee will be interim CEO.

Intel Exec Brings Tech, Personal Experience to Precision Medicine Initiative Job, Say Colleagues
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"I'm on this planet thanks to being an early prototype of precision medicine myself," said Eric Dishman, who the NIH has picked to lead the PMI Cohort Program.

Trovagene Terminates CEO Schuh and CFO Zaniboni for Breach of Duty

The firm said the two executives failed to present a lucrative corporate opportunity to Trovagene and took it for their own personal benefit instead.

Flatley Named Executive Chairman of Illumina as deSouza Steps Up to CEO Role

The new appointments, which have been unanimously approved by the company's board, will become effective on July 5.

NantHealth Adds $250M to Financing Round

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – NantHealth announced on Wednesday that it has received a $250 million investment from the Kuwait Investment Authority and has named new members to its management team.
Sep 18, 2014

Agilent Board OKs Keysight Split, Names McMullen as Sullivan Successor

Jul 30, 2014

Epic Sciences Raises $30M in Private Financing; Lucier Named Chairman

Oct 17, 2013

Biodesy Closes on $15M Series A Round, Appoints Greg Yap as CEO

Oct 16, 2013

Organizational Changes at Illumina Aimed at Growth, New Market Entries

Sep 17, 2013

Personalis Establishes UK Subsidiary

Jul 19, 2013

Hologic Replaces CEO, Pre-announces Q3 Revenues at Low End of Guidance

Feb 14, 2013

Nanosphere's Revenues Double as Firm Names New CEO; Stock Plummets

Jan 23, 2013

Former Gen-Probe CEO Carl Hull Leaving Hologic

Jan 3, 2013

SeraCare Divests Biorepository, Biobanking Businesses

Nov 28, 2012

Genetic Technologies Names New Chairman, Acting CEO

Oct 11, 2012

Quest Diagnostics Launches Reorganization, Layoffs

Sep 24, 2012

Microsaic H1 Revenues Spike as It Readies Launch of New Mass Spec Platform

Jul 12, 2012

Hull to Stay with Combined Hologic, Gen-Probe; Integration Planning Proceeding

Jun 27, 2012

Accelr8 Completes Deal for $35M Investment, New CEO Named

May 21, 2012

GE Taps Former Affymetrix President Siegel to Lead Healthymagination

Apr 23, 2012

Investment Group to Invest up to $35M into Accelr8; New CEO Tapped

Mar 21, 2012

Cartagenia Opens US Office

Mar 12, 2012

Helicos' Cash Decreases to $200K; CEO Goes Part-Time

Feb 15, 2012

CTC Test Firm On-Q-ity Raises $5M, Names New CEO

Feb 7, 2012

Applied Proteomics Raises $22.5M, Moves to San Diego

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Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.