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In Brief This Week: Bio-Techne, Dante Labs, Metagenomi, Applied DNA Sciences, Caris Life Sciences

News items for the week of April 5, 2021.

Bio-Techne Seeks to Build Out 'Substantial Diagnostics Presence' With Asuragen Buy
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Bio-Techne expects the acquisition will provide it with a basis to build out its IVD presence, given Asuragen's diagnostic tests and regulatory expertise.

Bio-Techne to Acquire Molecular Diagnostics Firm Asuragen for up to $320M

Bio-Techne said Asuragen's headquarters in Austin, Texas includes a scalable 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and CLIA-certified laboratory.

Pacific Biosciences, Asuragen Collaborate on Clinical Assays

Asuragen will develop assays for PacBio's long-read next-generation sequencing systems, with an initial focus on developing a carrier screening assay.

Asuragen Receives CE Mark for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Assay

The test can help diagnose spinal muscular atrophy and identify carriers without symptoms who may be at risk of passing the disease to their children.

Feb 23, 2020

Asuragen Fragile X Diagnostic Test Gets FDA Authorization

Nov 25, 2019

Asuragen, Wave Life Sciences to Develop Companion Diagnostics for Huntington's Disease Therapies

Dec 4, 2018

Asuragen Myotonic Dystrophy 1 Dx Kit Receives CE Mark

Nov 13, 2018

Health Canada Approves Two BCR-ABL Tests

Oct 22, 2018

Asuragen, RTI Collaborate on Fragile X Syndrome Testing

Oct 19, 2018

People in the News: Mary Padbury, Katherine Bach Kalin, Daniel Kolk, More

Sep 7, 2018

Asuragen ALS, Dementia Assay Gets Favorable Evaluation From UPenn Team
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Sep 7, 2018

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: Genoptix, Asuragen

Sep 5, 2018

Asuragen Gets CE Mark for QuantideX NGS Oncology Panel

Jul 27, 2018

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: SeraCare, Asuragen, Biofortuna, More

Jun 1, 2018

New Products Posted to GenomeWeb: PerkinElmer, Phase Genomics, Pacific Biosciences, Asuragen, More

Jan 17, 2018

Asuragen Gets CE Mark for QuantideX BCR-ABL Kits on Roche Platform

Feb 21, 2017

Asuragen to Develop IVD Kits on Thermo Fisher Scientific's CE Platform

Dec 12, 2016

Asuragen Research Correlates FMR1 Methylation, Symptoms in Fragile X-Associated Motor Disorder
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Jul 25, 2016

Asuragen BCR-ABL Kit Granted FDA Premarket Clearance

May 19, 2016

Surgical Decisions for Thyroid Nodules Often Not Affected By Molecular Testing

Sep 9, 2015

Illumina, Asuragen to Collaborate on Companion Diagnostics Development

Jun 11, 2015

Asuragen BCR-ABL Assay Receives CE Mark

Dec 10, 2014

Additional Members Join UK Cancer Consortium

Dec 5, 2014

Study Shows FFPE Pre-PCR Processing Problems Plague Pathology Labs
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And a Fourth?

A fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in an Israeli study increased antibody levels but did not prevent Omicron variant infections, according to the Financial Times.

For Better Science Software

A virtual institute funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's philanthropy aims to lure software engineers to academia, Science reports.

Recommendation Explanations

The New York Times writes that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is straining to both make and explain decisions based on limited information.

Genome Research Papers on De Novo Mutation Rates, Polyploid Genotyping, Oncogene Epigenomic Translocation

In Genome Research this week: de novo mutations rates in hemoglobin subunits, analysis of variant calling methods for polyploid plants, and more.