The award will help fund development of the firm's "ksim" algorithm to determine infection relatedness in suspected hospital-acquired infection outbreaks.
Researchers characterized new and known cell populations with single-cell transcriptome profiles for nearly 10,400 liver cells, using the data to see changes associated with liver cancer.
A Personalized Medicine Coalition-funded study has found that NGS-based testing is moderately cost effective but that access to targeted treatments remains a hurdle.
Under the agreement, Biodesix will use the Thermo Fisher Ion Torrent Oncomine Pan-Cancer Cell-Free Assay to generate data to apply for FDA premarket approval.
By sequencing 10 Bronze, early Iron, and late Iron Age individuals, researchers retraced ancestry patterns at a Philistine port city in present-day Israel.
From single-cell RNA sequence data on neurogenic brain samples from young and old mice, researchers saw T cell activity that seems to staunch neural stem cell proliferation.
The researchers found that background TP53 gene mutations increase with age and could affect efforts to develop liquid biopsy-based cancer screening tests.
Geisinger and UPenn researchers found that Titin truncations revealed by exome sequencing increased DCM risk in those with European but not with African ancestry.
Under the non-exclusive agreement, Germany's Merck will globally distribute RevoluGen's Fire Monkey/Fire Flower kit for the extraction of high molecular weight DNA.
As expected, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority is referring the proposed Illumina acquisition of PacBio for an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.
By analyzing thousands of cancer genomes, investigators identified hotspots for passenger mutations at DNA hairpin sites that are a preferred substrate for APOBEC, a cytidine deaminase.
A New Zealand minister says the country's genetic modification laws need to be re-examined to help combat climate change, the New Zealand Herald reports.
An Australian mother's conviction in the deaths of her children may be re-examined after finding that two of the children carried a cardiac arrhythmia-linked gene variant.
