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News on genetics and genomics applications in the Ag-Bio, Veterinary, Forensics, Food Safety, and Environmental Testing markets.

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Booming With New Funding, CDC Program
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New federal funding support and technological approaches are enlivening wastewater pathogen testing in the US, attracting developers and lab programs.

Crown Bioscience Licenses Cell Line Portfolio From NCI, ATCC

The ATCC deal gives CrownBio access to more than 140 cell lines now and 4,000 cell lines in the future, and the NCI deal gives the firm access to 100 cell lines.

CosmosID, Sandwalk BioVentures Partner on GRAS Genomic Reporting Service

The companies will offer sequencing and safety reporting services for next-generation probiotics aimed at the US market.

Bioinformatics Method Could Improve Detection of Off-Target CRISPR Activity
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Israeli researchers have developed CRISPector, which separates signal from noise better than earlier quality-control tools, a new paper shows.

Veterinary Startup PetDx Bets on Liquid Biopsy for Annual Cancer Screening in Dogs
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The firm's panel test, which will initially cost $400, identifies genetic biomarkers linked to over 20 cancers in dogs using cell-free and genomic DNA from blood.

May 21, 2021

ASHG Report Highlights Functional, Economic Impact of Human Genetics and Genomics

May 20, 2021

Dutch Seed Firm Bejo Takes License to Corteva Agriscience, Broad Institute CRISPR IP

May 4, 2021

Verogen, Eurofins Partner to Implement NGS-Based Forensics

Apr 5, 2021

Using CRISPR-Chip Technology, Cardea Bio Aims to Develop Lab-Free Multi-Omic Technology
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Mar 30, 2021

Novel CRISPR-Cas12a Orthologs Expand Gene Editing Toolkit for Plants
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Mar 17, 2021

Giraffe Genome Assembly, Functional Analyses Highlight Variants Linked to Height Adaptations

Mar 17, 2021

Ag-Bio Firm KeyGene Partners With Annogen to Study Non-Coding DNA in Plant Breeding

Mar 11, 2021

Some Grass Species Worse for Seasonal Allergies Than Others, DNA Analysis Shows

Feb 25, 2021

Berkeley Lights Q4 Revenues Rise 31 Percent

Feb 23, 2021

ERS Genomics Licenses CRISPR Patents to Korean Biotech Firm G+FLAS Life Sciences

Feb 23, 2021

DNA Script Exclusively Licenses Modified DNA Printing Technology From Baseclick

Feb 17, 2021

Million-Year-Old Mammoths Sequenced, Giving Insight into Evolution

Jan 27, 2021

One Codex, Transnetyx Collaborate on Microbiome Sequencing and Analysis Services

Jan 26, 2021

NRGene Completes $30.6M IPO

Jan 7, 2021

Pacific Biosciences HiFi Reads Drive Core Lab Business, High-Flying Stock Price
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Dec 16, 2020

Dental Plaque Microbes Genetically More Similar to Those of Soil Than Nearby Tongue

Dec 3, 2020

Twist Bioscience Prices Upsized $300M Public Offering

Dec 2, 2020

Twist Bioscience Proposes $250M Public Offering

Nov 25, 2020

Molecular Changes Wrought by Spaceflight Explored in Newly Published Studies

Nov 23, 2020

Twist Bioscience Fiscal Q4 Revenues More Than Double

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The Scan

Gone, But Now Reconstructed SARS-CoV-2 Genomes

In a preprint, a researcher describes his recovery of viral sequences that had been removed from a common database.

Rare Heart Inflammation Warning

The Food and Drug Administration is adding a warning about links between a rare inflammatory heart condition and two SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, Reuters reports.

Sandwich Sampling

The New York Times sent tuna sandwiches for PCR analysis.

Nature Papers Describe Gut Viruses, New Format for Storing Quantitative Genomic Data, More

In Nature this week: catalog of DNA viruses of the human gut microbiome, new dense depth data dump format to store quantitative genomic data, and more.