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New Products: Illumina's TruSeq Amplicon – Cancer Panel; BGI's FFPE Service; FlexGen's Gene Searcher
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Illumina has launched its TruSeq Amplicon — Cancer Panel, which targets 35 kilobases of mutational hotspots from 48 known cancer genes with 212 amplicons.

BGI, Leiden to Use FlexGen Target Enrichment in Dutch Genome Project
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FlexGen of the Netherlands said last week that China's BGI and Leiden University Medical Center will use its target enrichment technology to validate variants for the Genome of the Netherlands, or GoNL, project.

New Products: FlexGen's FleXelect kits; Hamilton Robotics' automated sample prep kit; Galaxy update
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FlexGen has launched a set of target enrichment products in its FleXelect product line. The products include a whole-exome enrichment kit as well as several targeted gene panels, including a cancer risk panel, hereditary diseases panel, and a BRCA screening kit.

FlexGen Launches Free Cost Calculator for Targeted Sequencing Experiments
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By Julia Karow

FlexGen Raises Financing to Commercialize Arrayer, Develop Applications
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The firm will use the undisclosed amount to optimize the protocols for its genomic-selection application and to start building a sales and marketing force that "will become more visible in the second half of this year," CEO Fred Dom said.
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Open Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas Team Introduces Genomic Data Collection, Analytical Tools

A study in Cell Genomics outlines open-source methods being used to analyze and translate whole-genome, exome, and RNA sequence data from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas.

Neurological Outcomes Linked to Innate Immune Features After Cardiac Arrest

Researchers reporting in Med dig into immune features found a few hours after cardiac arrest that correspond with neurological outcomes.

Mouse Study Finds Circadian Rhythm-Related Gene Expression Changes Linked to Sleep Apnea

A paper in PLOS Biology reveals tissue-specific circadian rhythm and gene expression patterns in an intermittent hypoxia-based mouse model of obstructive sleep apnea.

Polygenic Risk Score to Predict Preeclampsia, Gestational Hypertension in Pregnant Women

Researchers in Nature Medicine provide new mechanistic insights into the development of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which may help develop therapeutics.