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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.

Jan 26, 2012

ZyGem Inks OEM Agreement for Sample Prep Kits in Saudi Arabia

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ZyGem said today that it has signed an OEM agreement with Saudi Diagnostics, which will market ZyGem's DNA and RNA extraction kits for a variety of research applications.

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Biden Cancer Initiative Suspends Work

The nonprofit Biden Cancer Initiative is suspending its operations, according to the Associated Press.

Not What Was Expected, Eh?

Researchers examine how white nationalists handle personal genetic ancestry results that conflict with their racist worldview, the New York Times reports.

And Now You Know

NPR speaks with research participants before and after they learn their APOE E4 status, which affects their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

PLOS Papers Tackle Toxoplasma in Senegal, CCHFV in Sudan, More

In PLOS this week: genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strains, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus uncovered in Sudan, and more.

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