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Feb 24, 2017

Decisions, Decisions

At the Conversation, the University of Oxford's Michael Macklay writes that learning genetic risk of disease is a personal decision.

Mar 23, 2016

DNA Diagnostics Center Acquires All About Truth DNA Services

The DNA testing services provider said the acquisition will help it to grow its business in southern Florida, where All About Truth is based. 

Sep 16, 2015

Memorial Sloan Kettering, Illumina Partner on Research Studies of ctDNA

MSK will collect the samples and Illumina will analyze them for ctDNA using its sequencing technology.

Aug 04, 2015

California Precision Medicine Effort Awards $2.4M to Pediatric Cancer, Infectious Disease Projects

The initiative aims to integrate clinical, genomic, environmental, and other data from patients to help determine disease mechanisms and develop precise therapies.

Apr 04, 2013

Life Tech to Distribute LGC Forensic DNA Analysis System as Firms Eye Field-Based Testing Products

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Life Technologies said this week that it has become the exclusive worldwide distributor for LGC Forensics' recently launched ParaDNA platform, a portable DNA testing system designed to determine the quality of human DNA more quickly and efficiently than existing methods.

Mar 28, 2012

Strand Diagnostics to Receive $30M Investment from Nantworks

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

May 05, 2011

ZyGem, Lockheed Martin Aim to Speed Forensic DNA Analysis with Portable, Automated Platform

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The companies have developed a beta version of their platform, RapI.D., and have begun internal tests with the hope of field testing it by the beginning of next year.

May 26, 2010

MicroLab Diagnostics Acquisition 'Transformational' for ZyGem

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ZyGem's acquisition of MicroLab Diagnostics, announced this week, is expected to accelerate the company's transformation from a provider of DNA extraction products to a purveyor of fully integrated DNA-testing platforms for the forensics, biodefense, and eventually clinical diagnostics markets.

May 13, 2010

ASHG Says that Ancestral DNA Tests Need Review

An ASHG task force has issued a white paper urging stakeholder cooperation in addressing the vague and confusing nature of ancestral genetic information presented in consumer services.

Apr 07, 2010

Orchid Cellmark Acquires Strand's Paternity and Immigration Testing Business

Orchid has acquired the paternity and immigration DNA testing business unit from Strand Analytical Laboratories.

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The Scan

Security Policy Change at FDA

ScienceInsider reports that a new security policy at the US Food and Drug Administration may prevent foreign nationals from working there.

Fancier than the 'Sit and Reach'

WBUR in Boston looks into Orig3n's genetic fitness assessments to find more research is needed.

Collected and Stored

Cleveland.com reports that getting a DNA profile removed from a law enforcement database can be tricky.

This Week in PNAS

In PNAS this week: de novo mutations contribute to non-syndromic craniosynostosis, fungal tree of life, and more.

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