Adstec will assume the business, financial, and human resource commitments of the business and pay Transgenomic $300,000 for stock and inventory related to the business.

In Nucleic Acids Research this week: literature-mining method for uncovering additional gene-disease associations, database of human embryonic stem cell and induced pluripotent stem cell lines, and more.

PHG Foundation's Ron Zimmern and the CDC's Muin Khoury say a "multifaceted approach" is needed to address population health.

As president and CEO of the Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute, Kingsmore will be working toward adopting genomics to transform pediatric care.

A method developed at MIT creates polyacrylamide beads around droplets containing single cells to sequester bacterial genomes and allow for harsh lysis conditions; it then uses concatenated PCR and sequencing to address links between phylogeny and function.

An informatician restricts the use of his phylogenetic tree-building tool to protest friendly immigration policies.

The investment bank was bullish on Danaher's impending split into two firms, opportunities for M&A, and the Beckman Coulter and Sciex businesses. 

A chromosome 4 locus near glycophorin-coding genes appears to decrease the risk of severe malaria in African children, particularly those from East Africa.

The findings reveal a new layer of complexity around the role of microRNAs and highlight how race can influence their role in cancer and potentially other diseases.

Jefferies said the investor day event did not provide insight into Sequenom's growth strategy in the increasingly competitive NIPT market.  

Color Genomics hopes its recently launched benefits program will enable a broader population to have access to breast and ovarian cancer risk testing.

The investment bank gave shares of the molecular diagnostics firm an Outperform rating and a price target of $20 per share.

Four bacterial genera are found at lower levels in the gut microbiomes of three-month-old infants believed to be at risk of developing asthma later in life.

CBC also recently achieved ISO DIN/EN 17025:2005 accreditation for the extraction of total RNA from body fluids and the analysis of microRNA and mRNA.

The team has been monitoring changes in host gene expression patterns due to different types of infections, and hopes to develop a diagnostic test.

The UK firm provides chemicals for DNA-, RNA-, and PCR-based research, products for DNA and protein labeling, and proteomics reagents and kits. 

Under the arrangement, Rosetta would offer physicians the option to have thyroid samples analyzed by FNApath, with indeterminate samples tested with its microRNA assay.

NIH researchers have uncovered a blood-based microRNA signature that may be able to tell which patients with precursor disease may progress to myeloma.

Congenica and Omicia have signed contracts to interpret data from the first 8,000 patients in the UK's 100,000 Genomes Project.

The researchers increased the test's sensitivity for nucleotide variants from less than 96 percent to 99.5 percent and reduced the time to provisional results from 50 hours to 26 hours.

BGI says it will be selling gene-edited 'micropigs' as pets.

Congenica will use the grant to extend the functionality of Sapientia, its software for analyzing and interpreting whole-genome data.

Cardiologist Michael Lauer is to be the new deputy director of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health.

Veritas and the PGP share many of the same leaders, including Veritas Co-founder George Church, CSO Preston Estep, and CMO Joseph Thakuria.

The 11 European organizations will use Sophia's technologies to provide genetic testing to their patients.