pathogen detection
The company raised $30 million in Series D funding earlier this year to accelerate development of its automated microbial sequencing workflow.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Cepheid Partner for Automated Pathogen Sequencing
The two firms aim to develop an end-to-end solution to simplify the nanopore sequencing workflow and eventually enable expanded clinical use.
UK Launches National Pathogen-Agnostic Metagenomics Surveillance Effort
The UK Health Security Agency will use anonymized metagenomics data to monitor disease epidemiology and detect emerging pathogens.
The company has automated sample prep and bioinformatic analysis to make whole-genome sequencing affordable and scalable for clinical microbiology.
Investigators found that they could increase CNS infection diagnoses by using metagenomic next-generation sequencing to test cerebrospinal fluid samples.