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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

Sep 13, 2012

LBNL Seeks Licensees for Highly Specific and Sensitive DNA Extraction Method

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has made available for licensing a DNA extraction and isolation method that its inventors claim is more efficient, sensitive, and selective than current commercial DNA extraction kits.

Aug 02, 2012

DNA Genotek, BioServe Contributing Technologies to Ethiopian Research into Craniofacial Anomalies

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – DNA Genotek and BioServe Biotechnologies announced today their participation in a genomic study into craniofacial anomalies in Ethiopia.

May 25, 2012

Biocartis, Philips, WTSI Collaborate on Cancer MDx Technology

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Biocartis today announced it is developing a workflow for extracting, amplifying, and detecting tumor DNA on its diagnostic platforms in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Philips Research.

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The Scan

PLOS Papers Look at Gut Mycobacterium Abscessus, Preterm Birth Transcriptomics, More

In PLOS this week: Mycobacterium abscessus linked to gastric conditions, placental gene expression changes associated with preterm birth, and more.

All That Plastic in the Lab

The Guardian reports that UK universities are looking into ways to reduce labs' reliance on single-use plastics.

Garlic Helps, Too

People with certain gene variants tend to not like vegetables, particularly bitter ones, CNN reports.

Now Here

MIT's Technology Review reports on a company's genetic test that gauges an embryo's susceptibility to certain diseases.

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