The GenomeWeb Index, which now has 32 companies, lost 2.6 percent in September while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2 percent over the same period.
Industry experts say a receptive market and investor interest in new technologies have spurred the increase in genomics tools and molecular diagnostics IPOs.
The immune sequencing firm is working on kit-ifying its two existing tests, as well as developing a second clinical test and expanding the label for clonoSeq.
In its first quarter operating as a public company, the Seattle-based immune sequencing firm more than tripled development revenues and grew sequencing revenues.
Cowen and William Blair initiated coverage of Adaptive with Outperform ratings, while JP Morgan assigned an Overweight rating and a $45 price target to the firm's stock.
The firm, which markets a clinical immunosequencing assay for leukemia and multiple myeloma, had originally expected to sell its shares at $15 to $17 apiece.
By studying koalas and a retrovirus that infects them, researchers may have uncovered a new sort of 'immune response' that occurs at the genomic level, Agence France Presse reports.
In Science this week: ancient genomes reveal social inequality within individual households, new method for quantifying genetic variation in gene dosage, and more.
