Genomics

10x Genomics Raises $35M in Series D Round Extension

January 8, 2019

10x Genomics has raised $35 million in an extension of its Series D financing, the company said today. The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from Fidelity and Wells Fargo, and brings the company’s total financing [more...]

Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making roles in HIV

December 29, 2018

Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today. However, if left undiagnosed or untreated, HIV can develop into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency [more...]

Microfluidics 2018: New Technologies and Applications in Biology, Biochemistry and Single-Cell Analysis

July 15, 2018

Microfluidics is a quickly growing, highly interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, engineering, chemistry and biology. Over the past years microfluidic approaches have been used for a variety of applications, including [more...]

Cytena Announced a Series of Three New Single-cell Printers

May 10, 2018

The isolation, sorting and analysis of single biological cells has been rapidly gaining attention in the life-science sector over the last couple of years. cytena’s single-cell printing technology has rapidly gained adoption by the [more...]

Sphere Fluidics and Geneva Biotech receive Eurostars Genome Editing Grant

December 3, 2017

Cyto-mine, a benchtop automated instrument for single cell analysis (Credit: Sphere Fluidics) Sphere Fluidics, a company providing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Geneva Biotech, an [more...]

BD Expands Genomics Portfolio with New Single Cell Platform for RNA Expression Analysis

December 1, 2017

BD Rhapsody™ single cell analysis system (Credit: Becton Dickinson) BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the launch of BD Rhapsody, a platform for single [more...]

New Technology Illuminates Microbial Dark Matter

October 29, 2017

At Stanford University, researchers have used a new microfluidic analysis system to extract 29 novel microbial genomes (the complete set of genetic material) from samples from two Yellowstone National Park hot springs. They extracted the [more...]

DNA Sequencing Market Foreseen to Grow Exponentially Over 2017 – 2025 : Persistence Market Research

May 31, 2017

DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique used to determine the sequence of a DNA molecule. Particularly, the arrangement of four nucleotide bases i.e. Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, and Thymine can be identified by usage of various sequencing [more...]

How to Hack a Cell?

April 9, 2017

The human body is made up of trillions of cells, microscopic computers that carry out complex behaviors according to the signals they receive from each other and their environment. Synthetic biologists engineer living cells to control how [more...]

[Report] Lab on Chips Market to Reach US$8.7 Billion by 2024: High Acceptance of Microfluidic Products in Healthcare Sector to Fuel Growth Opportunities

April 3, 2017

The presence of large players in most geographies has rendered the vendor landscape of the Global Lap on Chips Market highly competitive. However, the market exhibits a high degree of consolidation with the top 8 players accounting for [more...]

CRISPR Meets Single-cell Sequencing in New Screening Method

February 18, 2017

Microfluidic droplets capture single, genome-edited cells and barcode their transcriptome. (Image Credit: Paul Datlinger/CeMM) Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 “gene scissors” is a powerful tool for biological discovery and for [more...]

BD Launches Reagents to Simplify Single Cell Research

January 22, 2017

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today (Jan 17th 2017) announced the commercial availability of its new kits that provide an easier method to identify and quantify genetic information [more...]

Illumina Wants to Sequence Your Whole Genome for $100

January 10, 2017

From Admin: Illumina the global leader in next-generation sequencing technology, today introduced the NovaSeqTM Series, a new and scalable sequencing architecture expected one day to enable a $100 genome. Unveiled at the J.P. Morgan [more...]

GRAIL Announces Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas (CCGA) Study

December 4, 2016

RAIL, Inc., a life sciences company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, announced today that it has commenced its first multi-center clinical study, the Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas (CCGA) study to [more...]

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook: Chemistry, Physics, and Life Science Principles

August 1, 2016

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Authors: Sushanta K. Mitra, Suman Chakraborty, September 20, 2011 by CRC Press Summary The Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook: Two-Volume Set comprehensively captures the [more...]

EMN Meeting on Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 2016

April 5, 2016

The paramount EMN Meeting on Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, April 05-08, 2016 will bring an opportunity for leading academic scientists, researchers and decision makers in the field of Nanomedicine to get their latest discoveries [more...]

Personalized Medicine Is Having A Positive Measurable Effect on Patient Outcomes

March 21, 2016

A new approach to research, pharmaceutical development, and clinical care is remaking healthcare. Known as personalized medicine or precision medicine, it promises improved patient outcomes, cost savings, and progress against previously [more...]

Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope Of Precision Therapy For Blindness

February 7, 2016

Skin cells from a patient with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa were transformed into induced pluripotent stem cells and the blindness-causing point mutation in the RPGR gene was corrected using CRISPR/Cas9 (Image credit: Vinit Mahajan) A [more...]

Human Whole Genome Sequencing

November 2, 2015

There are 6 billion stories in the human genome. If you want to read one of them, you’re going to need a sequencer. But, what to sequence? Researchers interested in the mysteries of the human genome have three options: targeted [more...]

Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Selects Illumina

October 30, 2015

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genotyping technologies are revolutionizing animal breeding. Traditional animal breeding relies on scoring animals based on their observed physical characteristics (phenotype) to determine their [more...]