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Bionano Genomics, NuProbe Global Collaborate on Reproductive Health, Cancer Liquid Biopsies

The firms will integrate NuProbe's quantitative amplicon sequencing and blocker displacement amplification technologies with Bionano's Saphyr optical genome mapping platform.

Startup Angstrom Bio Plans Saliva-Based COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Test on Nanopore Sequencing Platform
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Angstrom Bio is developing a rapid, scalable coronavirus test that uses nanopore sequencing to detect barcoded PCR products.

Adaptive Biotechnologies, Takara Bio T Cell Receptor Sequencing Methods Rank High in Benchmarking Study
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An international team of researchers put nine immune cell sequencing methods head to head, including RNA-based and DNA-based ones, using the same T-cell sample.

Helix Gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization for NGS-Based COVID-19 Test

The in vitro diagnostic test runs on the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 instrument and will be performed at Helix's San Diego CLIA-certified laboratory.

Pacific Biosciences, Asuragen Collaborate on Clinical Assays

Asuragen will develop assays for PacBio's long-read next-generation sequencing systems, with an initial focus on developing a carrier screening assay.

Jun 26, 2020

Iowa Startup FBB Biomed Pursues RNA Blood Test to Predict COVID-19 Disease Severity
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Jun 2, 2020

NuProbe Licenses Two Oligonucleotide Technologies from Rice University

May 20, 2020

Omics-Driven Drug Discovery Firm Octant Raises $30M in Series A Financing Round

May 12, 2020

Pillar Biosciences Closes $29.7M Series C Financing Round

Mar 16, 2020

Qiagen, NuProbe Partner on Rare Variant Enrichment in Liquid Biopsy Tests

Jan 23, 2020

Startup BioSkryb Eyes Oncology Applications for Single-Cell DNA Sequencing
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Jan 8, 2020

BioSkryb Raises $11.5M in Seed Funding

Dec 3, 2019

Illumina, ArcherDx Expand Partnership on NGS IVD Tests

Mar 11, 2019

New IDT Multiplexed Target Amplification Technology Promises High Specificity
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Jan 22, 2019

Circulating B Cell Antibody Repertoire in Healthy Individuals is Highly Diverse, Study Reveals

Nov 13, 2018

Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostic Platform That Skips Need for Amplification Being Developed at UCLA
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Oct 26, 2018

New Zika Genomes From African, Asian Lineages Document Virus' Population Diversity

Jun 15, 2018

PDL1 Amplifications Mark Subset of Solid Tumors, May Point to Checkpoint Blockade Response

May 16, 2018

Dutch Researchers Develop Multiplex RT-PCR Assay to Detect Bloodstream Infections
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Sep 28, 2016

Toyota Designs New Genotyping by Sequencing Technology Platform for Crop Research
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Jul 14, 2016

Sequence Bio Raises $1.6M in Equity

Mar 22, 2016

Researchers Sequence Chimpanzee Parasites to Learn About Evolution of Human Malaria Species

Aug 27, 2015

Researchers Develop LR-PCR, NGS Combination Method to Detect PMS2 Gene Mutations

Mar 18, 2015

Sygnis Inks Belgian Distribution Agreement with Sopachem for TruePrime

Jan 8, 2015

Karolinska Team Demonstrates PCR-free NGS Method for Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis
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UK Moves to Allow Sale of Gene-Edited Food

The UK is moving ahead to allow the sale of gene-edited food in England, Scotland, and Wales, according to New Scientist.

Questions for the Field

Stat News writes that the alleged Buffalo shooter's citation of genetics research raises questions about what the field can do.

Cell Studies on Tumor Evolution in Mouse Model of Lung Cancer, Stereo-seq, Bacteriophage Responses

In Cell this week: tumor evolution tracked in mouse model of lung cancer, organogenesis mapped using Stereo-seq, and more.

Taking Stock of the Stockpile

The US and European countries are evaluating their smallpox vaccine stockpiles as the number of monkeypox cases increases, the Washington Post reports.