Roche AXELIOS 1 Review Against the High-Throughput Pack
Roche launched the AXELIOS 1 platform yesterday, moving its sequencing-by-expansion (SBX) technology from years of early access at sites like the Broad and Hartwig into...
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Next-generation sequencing: platforms, chemistry, throughput and the analysis tools that follow the run.
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Human Longevity Drops a $599 Clinical-Grade Genome
Less than two weeks after the death of its co-founder Dr. J. Craig Venter on April 29, 2026, Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) has launched a...
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Qitan Tech vs Oxford Nanopore: Inside the Two-Horse Race for the Future of Nanopore Sequencing
For more than a decade, Oxford Nanopore Technologies was effectively alone in the commercial nanopore DNA sequencing, a market that it created. All that changed...
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The Day Biology Changed Forever: Why April 14th Matters in the Story of the Human Genome
Sixteen years ago today on April 14, 2003, one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors in history reached its defining milestone. The Human Genome Project—a...
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Roche SBX Aims for Nanopore’s Portability Crown
Roche announced its breakthrough in Next Gen Sequencing with the Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) tech. The tech which has many innovations combined can be defined...
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PacBio Introduces Vega – Illumina’s Competitor in High-Precision Long-Read Sequencing
PacBio has announced the launched of an affordable line of bench-top long-read sequencers at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting. The Vega system,...
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Illumina’s New MiSeq i100 Series a Modest Update to Benchtop NGS
Illumina’s just announced the MiSeq i100 Series, a significant update to the company’s MiSeq series bench-top sequencers with a reduction in size and improvements in...
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microRNAs Discovery Wins Big: Why this Small Discovery is Such a Big Deal?
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was given to geneticists Dr. Victor Ambros and Dr. Gary Ruvkun for their pioneering discovery of microRNAs,...
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