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Lockheed Martin Launches Healthcare Technology Alliance with Illumina, Others
The founding members of the alliance include Illumina, Intel, Cisco, Cloudera, and Montgomery College.
Claritas Wins $9M Exome Sequencing Contract from VA
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The US Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded startup clinical diagnostics laboratory Claritas Genomics a $9 million contract to sequence the exomes of veteran samples, Claritas, Life Technologies, and Lockheed Martin announced today.
US Subsidiary of ZyGem Shuttered After Forced Bankruptcy; Questions Surround Asset Disbursement
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ZyGem LLC, a former US subsidiary of New Zealand-based biotech firm ZyGem Limited, is no longer in business after a group of former employees and contractors earlier this year filed a petition with a federal court to force the company into Chapter 7 bankruptcy for debts owed,
Life Tech to Distribute LGC Forensic DNA Analysis System as Firms Eye Field-Based Testing Products
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Life Technologies said this week that it has become the exclusive worldwide distributor for LGC Forensics' recently launched ParaDNA platform, a portable DNA testing system designed to determine the quality of human DNA more quickly and efficiently than existing methods.
Researchers from the Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine at the University of Arizona have published a paper describing a number of improvements to their fully integrated, microfluidic forensic device for rapid multiplex PCR-based DNA analysis.