Epigenomics and Epigenetics Research
News on epigenetic profiling, DNA methylation, histone modifications, epigenetic disorders in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
The company showed early data establishing a rheumatoid arthritis-specific expression signature and is enrolling patients into a larger study.
Developed by researchers in the Netherlands, the workflow can rapidly classify deadly CNS tumors within 90 minutes using methylation signals.
The San Diego-based startup is currently offering its EpiPlex assay to early-access customers before launching it as an NGS library prep kit mid-next year.
Company researchers have shown that EpiDirect can detect and quantify 5mC without bisulfite treatment, demonstrating it on a promoter in human brain tumor samples.
NIH Awards $50.3M to Establish Multiomics Consortium
The consortium will include six disease-focused study sites as well as an omics production center and a data analysis and coordinating center.