uBiome Pockets $22 Million to Dig Further in Your Poop
uBiome has two new announcements today: the launch of its new SmartGut fecal microbiome test and a $22 million round of Series B funding aimed...
Microbiome
NGS
Next-generation sequencing: platforms, chemistry, throughput and the analysis tools that follow the run.
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A More Precise Nanopore Sequencer Based on Polymer-Tagged Nucleotides
Researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed an advanced real-time, single-molecule nanopore sequencer. In collaboration with Genia Technologies (Roche), Harvard University and the...
Blog
Study Identifies Individuals Resilient to Severe Genetic Diseases
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City have discovered that certain individuals have the ability to survive genetic disorders that...
Biomedicine
It’s Here!! $1,000 Whole Genome Sequencing, With Results Browsable on Smartphones
Veritas Genetics has announced its $1,000 whole genome sequencing service whose results will be browsable on smartphones. The MyGenome service announced last year and set to...
Bioinformatics
Illumina Partners with 4 Biobanks to Genotype Their Collections
Illumina has signed agreements with Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado at Anschutz Medical Campus, Partners HealthCare, and Montreal Heart Institute to genotype their sample collections. Illumina’s...
Bioinformatics
Faster Nanopore Sequencing Simulation Based on Graphene Nanoribbons
Nanopore sequencing technology could be faster and more accurate, according to a simulation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In the recently developed...
Bioengineering
A New Technique Makes Nanopore Detection 1000 Times Faster
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the University of Minnesota have developed a technique that accelerates nanopore single-molecule detection 1000 fold. Single-molecule dielectrophoretic trapping,...
Bioengineering
Mykrobe Predictor Software Identifies Antibiotic Resistance
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics have developed a new software that predicts antibiotic resistance in bacteria by analyzing their genome. The new...
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