Life Technologies (Thermo Fisher Scientific) has been awarded

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers at Northeastern University have developed an optical method for recording ion current changes by DNA travelling through a solid-state nanopore.

In a reader survey, researchers and core lab staff share how they think cores are doing.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team from Wayne State University and Michigan's Isle Royale National Park have demonstrated the feasibility of using Ion Torrent sequencing to assess microbial community samples being introduced into the environment.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A consortium of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) family foundations has launched a program to provide free genetic testing to people suffering from muscular dystrophy.

Title: microRNA Affinity Assay and Uses Thereof Patent Number: 8,846,350 Filed: Oct. 18, 2010

Performance comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent next-generation sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA-based bacterial community profiling. Salipante SJ, Kawashima T, Rosenthal C, Hoogestraat DR , et al.

GenapSys has appointed Mark Pratt as vice president of product development. Most recently, Pratt was senior director of accuracy R&D at Personalis.

Intellimedix and BGI Tech will launch Enhanced Accelerated Exome in November. The exome service will include sequencing on Thermo Fisher's Ion Proton and analysis using Intellimedix's interpretative software Prognostix and will have a turnaround time of 10 days.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – GE Healthcare today announced a deal between its affiliate Clarient Diagnostic Services and GlaxoSmithKline to create a network of clinical laboratories to identify genetic mutations associated with different tumor types.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Australian Genome Research Facility and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have partnered to give Australian genomics researchers easier access to Garvan's Illumina HiSeq X Ten platform for human whole-genome sequencing, the institutions said today.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – AccuraScience is hoping to build a business around providing data analysis services to researchers in academia, industry, and eventually clinical facilities who have begun to use next-generation sequencing in their projects and who, for various reasons, choose to outsource

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Transcriptomic data may help predict how patients respond to treatment with statins, according to a new study from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute researchers appearing in Genome Biology

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Twist Bioscience today announced that it has secured a loan facility of up to $10 million with Silicon Valley Bank.

In PLOS this week: population structure and ancestry profiles of people in South America and Mexico, microRNAs involved in Kaposi's sarcoma, and more.

Genome editing could be used to combat diseases like HIV and sickle cell anemia, the Broad's Feng Zhang says.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Higher-resolution chromosomal microarray analysis may provide a greater diagnostic yield than conventional techniques, but the ability of CMA to identify more variants of unknown or potentially pathogenic significance may be a double-edged sword when it comes to children in

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Alliance Global Group (AGBL) today announced an exclusive master distribution agreement for Fluxion Biosciences' IsoFlux and BioFlux systems in emerging markets in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Through its acquisition of PCRmax announced last week, Staffordshire, UK-based Bibby Scientific intends to breathe new life into the ECO qPCR system, a low-cost benchtop platform formerly sold by Illumina but discontinued by that company last year.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Luminex said after the close of the market on Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared three additional targets for its xTAG Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – As part of an effort to advance conjugate-based drug-delivery technologies for siRNA therapeutics, researchers from China's Southern Medical University this month reported in vivo data on a new approach for tumor-targeted gene silencing.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health said today that it has selected the Medical College of Wisconsin and Baylor College of Medicine to serve as the DNA Sequencing Core sites for its Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and will award the centers with more than $2.5 million over four

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston said today that it has received a $5.7 million grant from the Texas Regional CTSA Consortium to establish and lead a network bringing together proteomics-related resources from across the UT system.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A shareholder has filed a lawsuit to stop Merck KGaA's proposed $17 billion buy of Sigma-Aldrich, Shareholders Foundation, a legal monitoring and settlement claim filing service, said today.