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Published on April 1, 2015
It seems every week that a new publication extols the benefits of next-generation sequencing (NGS), often from sequencing the genome of a medically relevant organism in record time or identifying the polymorphisms that may lead to drug resistance in cancer. One could make an educated guess that NGS is poised…
Published on April 1, 2015
Conventional wisdom has steered scientists for many years toward the assumption that disease-triggering genetic mutations were inherited by offspring from existing mutations within parental DNA, and that these mutations reside within all somatic cells, eventually emerging due to some perturbation of the cellular environment. However, over the past several years…
Published on February 26, 2015
Genomics meets gene tectonics in a pancreatic cancer study that describes large-scale genomic rearrangements that can be likened to geological events. In pancreatic cancer, large slabs of DNA can slide from one genomic region to another, changing the genomic landscape. While DNA fault lines and ridges have been exposed by…
Published on September 5, 2014
Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp) launched a new business, Enlighten Health Genomics, that builds on the diagnostic potential of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The company said it aims to make genetic profiles a routine part of clinical decisions. Enlighten Health Genomics combines LabCorp’s infrastructure and capabilities with a team…
Published on August 13, 2014
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) not only continues to make steady advances in the molecular diagnosis of cancers, it also seems to fit perfectly with our current knowledge of the oncogenome. In particular, by making it possible to screen the entire coding sequence of cancer-related genes, NGS overcomes a key problem—cancer predisposition…
Published on July 24, 2014
Cypher Genomics and Illumina have made a pact to co-promote Illumina's sequencing technology, the NextBio platform for data analytics and storage, and Cypher's Coral™ biomarker discovery service to pharmaceutical companies. The firms, through Illumina's sales team, will be promoting the products and service together as part of a solution that,…
Published on July 7, 2014
Sequence-based clinical diagnostics firm and deCODE genetics spinout NextCODE Health is partnering with the Academic Centre on Rare Diseases (ACoRD) at University College Dublin, allowing ACoRD to use NextCODE products in research aimed at learning more about the causes and better ways to diagnose autism and rare diseases. NextCODE's Clinical…
Published on June 30, 2014
Illumina entered three separate deals with three European labs under which they will use Illumina's consumables and the HiSeq 2500 to develop and perform noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in their respective nations. French lab-testing service firm Biomnis will make NIPT available in France, Italian molecular genetics lab Genoma will perform…
Published on June 26, 2014
Recent developments reveal both the beginnings of consensus, and many more unresolved issues, when it comes to “incidental” or unexpected findings uncovered during genome or exome sequencing. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) retreated in April from its controversial recommendation last year that labs should return incidental…