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Feb 01, 2018

Biohm to Begin Study to Potentially Find Link Between Gut Microbiome and Autism

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Working with Case Western Reserve University, the firm will sequence fecal samples from individuals diagnosed with autism and provide results for free to the research community.  


Dec 07, 2017

Shifting Focus to Sample Prep, Circulomics Anticipates Launching First DNA Extraction Product

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The company has been working for several years under NIH grants totaling more than $7 million and is now preparing for its first formal product launch.

Oct 02, 2017

DermTech Emphasizes Opportunity of PLA Tech to Lower Cost of Melanoma Testing

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Despite the initial high cost, the firm believes the assay's improved accuracy and sensitivity will sway clinical and payor interest.

Jan 26, 2017

Phylogenomic Study Shows Utility of Ancient DNA Samples for Modern Research

Two researchers devised a protocol to sequence DNA from ancient samples and tested it on 100-year-old museum specimens.

May 27, 2016

Oxford Nanopore Developing Smartphone-Powered Device, Launches New Pore

At a user meeting in London this week, Chief Technology Officer Clive Brown introduced the SmidgIon and a number of other technology developments, as well as a new synthetic biology spinoff.

Dec 09, 2015

Pairing Finger Stick Samples With NGS, Circulogene Joins Liquid Biopsy Field's Growing Ranks

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The company is now offering a test covering about 3,000 hotspots in 50 genes for 10 cancer types that can be performed on sample volumes as low as 50 microliters.

May 19, 2015

CureSeq to Offer Rapid NGS Tumor Profiling Services; Conducting Clinical Trials with Chinese Partners

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The UCSF spinout was founded last year and has been selling an FFPE DNA extraction kit and three NGS cancer panels.

Sep 24, 2014

Circulomics Receives NIH Grant to Develop FFPE DNA/RNA Extraction Technology

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Circulomics announced today that it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop its Nanobind DNA and RNA isolation technology for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples.

Sep 09, 2013

With Tweaks to Approach, Researchers Reconstruct Cave Bear Mitochondrial Genome from Small Fragments

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – An international team of researchers has pieced together the mitochondrial genome of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear from very small DNA fragments.

Jun 25, 2013

Cleveland Clinic Review Finds DNA Extraction Method Can Lead to Miscalled Constitutional CGH Results

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While many in the cytogenetics world are concerned with array findings of unclear clinical significance, and how to communicate that information back to patients, a recent review conducted within Cleveland Clinic Laboratories found that it was the lab's sample preparation method

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