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French Plant Breeding Firm Meiogenix Raises $13M in Series A Round

The company is developing gene- and chromosome-editing technologies designed to accelerate plant biodiversity by mixing parental genomes during reproduction.

Berkeley Lights Ramps up Partnerships With Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bayer Deals
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The recent deals are changing the way the firm plans to make some cell and functional analysis workflows available to future customers.  

Novel CRISPR-Cas12a Orthologs Expand Gene Editing Toolkit for Plants
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Researchers screened nine orthologs that had not been tried in plants before and identified six that possessed high editing activity in rice.

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

G+FLAS said it provides CRISPR-related research services, tools, and reagents and applies CRISPR technology to develop drugs and produce genome-edited plants.

Swift Biosciences, LGC BioSearch Partner on Targeted Sequencing for Ag-Bio

LGC will be Swift's worldwide partner for amplicon-based targeted sequencing assays for genotyping AgBio samples, including crop species and animals. 

Jan 29, 2020

Arbor Biosciences, Biosearch Technologies Ink Global Distribution Deal for Ag-Bio NGS Panels

Oct 10, 2019

Ginkgo Bioworks Launches $350M Funding Vehicle for Spinoffs

Aug 26, 2019

10x Genomics Showing 'Little Concern' for Patent Lawsuit Consequences, Customers Say
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Jun 4, 2019

California Nanopore Firm Shifts Focus to Ag Market
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May 24, 2019

Arev Brands International, Lighthouse Genomics Ink Cannabis Genotyping Agreement

Jan 8, 2019

GreenLight Biosciences Raises $50M in Private Financing Round

Dec 20, 2018

Bayer, HitGen Partner on Small Molecule Discovery for Crop Science

Nov 13, 2018

Trace Genomics Raises $13M in Series A Financing Round

Dec 14, 2017

Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $275M to Support Foundry, Bayer Ag Venture

Sep 18, 2017

ExcitePCR Aims to Launch Two Versions of POC MDx Platform Over Next Two Years
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Sep 14, 2017

Ginkgo Bioworks, Bayer to Invest $100M in New Agbio Company

Feb 23, 2017

Ag-Bio Startup TL Biolabs Raises $4M

Jan 4, 2017

Monsanto Licenses CRISPR/Cpf1 From Broad Institute

Nov 3, 2016

Fungal Genome Assembled With Only Nanopore-Generated Reads

Sep 28, 2016

Toyota Designs New Genotyping by Sequencing Technology Platform for Crop Research
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Aug 16, 2016

BGI Opens Asia-Pacific Regional Office, Inks Agreements With Queensland Researchers

Jun 28, 2016

Monsanto Inks Gene Editing Tech Licensing Deals With TargetGene, Nomad Bioscience

Jan 19, 2016

Affymetrix Completes Planned Launch of Eureka Kit for Agrigenomics Customers
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Dec 17, 2015

Canadian Research Team Wins C$7.3M to Develop New Vaccines for Cattle
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Dec 3, 2015

Novogene, International Center for Tropical Agriculture Partner to Construct Cassava Pan-Genome

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Transplant Tests Edited Pig Kidneys

The Associated Press reports a University of Alabama-Birmingham team transplanted genetically modified pig kidneys into a brain-dead human patient.

UK Changes Some Gene-Edited Crop Rules

A new law may enable gene-edited crops to be sold in the UK within about five years, New Scientist says.

Pill Works Against Omicron in Lab

Pfizer's antiviral pill to treat SARS-CoV-2 appears to work against the Omicron variant, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Nature Papers Find Genetic Risk Factor for Smell, Taste Loss in COVID-19; Analyze TB Granulomas

In Nature this week: genome-wide association study find locus linked to the risk COVID-19 patients losing their sense of taste or smell, and more.