Asuragen AmplideX PCR/CE HTT Kit
Asuragen said today that it has launched its AmplideX PCR/CE HTT kit. The tool detects CAG trinucleotide repeats within the HTT gene, which are linked to the development of Huntington disease. According to the firm, the kit offers a streamlined, single-well PCR workflow that allows researchers to detect and size expansions with greater than 200 CAG repeats in about six hours. The kit provides all necessary reagents to size the expansion using 10 ng of DNA isolated from whole blood samples. The assay also addresses sample zygosity and preserves the CAG repeat profile in the presence of adjacent SNPs. The assay runs on Thermo Fisher Scientific Applied Biosystems Genetic Analyzers, including the 3130, 3500, and 3700 platforms.
Yourgene Sage 32 Plex
Yourgene Health has launched the Sage 32 plex test, a high-throughput noninvasive prenatal testing and analysis solution for clinical laboratories. It runs on Thermo Fisher Scientific's Ion Torrent sequencing platform and allows 32 samples to be processed in parallel. The test, which will be available internationally, has improved performance due to workflow enhancements and upgraded analysis methods. Yourgene plans to launch a CE-IVD-marked version of the library preparation kit for the Sage 32 plex workflow in the coming months. The Sage test differs from Yourgene's other NIPT, the Iona test, in that it screens for a wider range of conditions, including trisomies 21, 18, and 13; sex chromosome aneuploidies; and clinically relevant microdeletions. The analysis uses a cloud-based bioinformatics solution called Sage Link.
Twist Bioscience Synthetic DNA, TAPI
Twist Bioscience is now offering to synthesize genes up to five kilobases in length for $0.15 per base pair and with a turnaround time of 15 to 25 days. In addition, the company is making its Twist Application Programming Interface (TAPI) available to all customers ordering synthetic DNA.
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