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News and Trends 25 Feb 2016

NGS Battle: Illumina is now suing Oxford Nanopore (and it looks suspicious)

NGS-Giant Illumina (US) is suing Oxford Nanopore (UK), the Unicorn ready to disrupt gene sequencing. What’s the story? Illumina currently has the monopoly on NGS equipment, and Illumina’s machines make a common (and bulky) fixture in labs all over the world. In the future, many hospitals will move into data-driven medicine and NGS plays an important […]

February 25, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 23 Feb 2016

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

Desktop Genetics, a small bioinformatics start-up out of London, has won a substantial grant to understand why some cancer cells just won’t quit. To do this, it relies on CRISPR, their expertise with genetic data, and research from Imperial College London. Desktop Genetics has already proven that it can move some money, with a €1.87 […]

February 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 16 Feb 2016

This Swiss Bioinformatics Start-Up is Simplifying NGS and Data Driven Medicine for Hospitals

As one of the most successful medical bioinformatics start-ups in Europe, Sophia Genetics (Switzerland) has now forged a partnership with a US nucleic acid synthesis company to facilitate the transition to Data Driven Medicine. This Swiss start-up led the way in European medical informatics when their software earned accreditation to store patient genomic data – a true […]

February 16, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

‘Every Droplet Counts’ with €1M Investment into French Microfluidic Start-Up

MilliDrop (France) designs and develops cell culture machines based on millifluidic technology for bacterial research and diagnostics, and has now secured a €1M fund-raising from Seventure. Millidrop will use the fund to start producing trial runs of its first machine, the MilliDrop Analyzer. This machine uses millifluidics technology to culture and analyse micro-organisms. The company is also under the Pierre-Gilles […]

February 15, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 15 Feb 2016

Why Text Mining will Revolutionize Big Data in Biotech

Currently, searching information within ‘big data’ is performed via key-words, often resulting in a high number of results that are not always relevant to your initial question. Now, imagine a tool that gives a more precise answer to your question with the same ease of use. That’s the power of text and data mining, and it’s […]

February 15, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Jerome Topsent

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News and Trends 12 Feb 2016

World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Project partners with Global Leader in NGS

Genomics England (UK) today announce a partnership with the Next-Generation Sequencing Giant, Illumina (US), to develop a platform that can be used to improve and automate genome interpretation as part of the 100,000 Genome Project. The tools will operate within the Genomics England secure database to enable researchers and clinicians to access information and reports more readily. […]

February 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 27 Jan 2016

French Investor Leads €60M Financial Round for the Future of DNA Synthesis

Twist Bioscience is a San Francisco Biotech accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis piece of tech. And now, Twist has completed a $61 million Series D round. An improved silicon-based design compared to the traditional 96-well plates could do wonders for DNA synthesis, including major improvements in cost and time of the process. And the […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Jan 2016

How about the $100M Holy ‘GRAIL’ in Cancer Diagnostics? A Universal Test Start-up Faces German Competition

Illumina, the €22Bn Market cap NGS specialist, and Bill Gates pooled a $100M to fund the startup, ‘Grail’, which will be used to find a universal cancer detection test for Doctors. The startup will be based in San Francisco (US) with additional financial backing to include Bill Gates amongst others. The tests in question are […]

January 11, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 16 Dec 2015

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

BioMérieux (France) is a diagnostics tech company which has partnered with the US Bioinformatics Giant Illumina to produce a novel Microbiological genetics sequencing kit: the bioMérieux EpiSeq. BioMérieux is a worldwide leading provider of diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments, software) which determine the source of disease and contamination to improve patient health and reduce risk of hospital […]

December 16, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 10 Dec 2015

“Structural Biology is changing the way we design drugs”

Structural biology, the study of the structure of biological macromolecules, is becoming a real asset in the drug development process. The PSDI meeting is THE not-to-be-missed event for the experts in this field. Labiotech.eu gives you a glimpse of the last trends discussed during this conference thanks to our exclusive interview with Dr Peter Reinemer, […]

December 10, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 24 Nov 2015

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

For several decades, physicians have been dreaming of a Personalized Medicine, able to treat patients according to their genetic profile. The development of Next Generation Sequencing techniques can be the ultimate step before a massive adoption of personalized medicine. The world of medicine is shifting from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to one […]

November 24, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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NGS Battle: Illumina is now suing Oxford Nanopore (and it looks suspicious)

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

This Swiss Bioinformatics Start-Up is Simplifying NGS and Data Driven Medicine for Hospitals

‘Every Droplet Counts’ with €1M Investment into French Microfluidic Start-Up

Why Text Mining will Revolutionize Big Data in Biotech

World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Project partners with Global Leader in NGS

French Investor Leads €60M Financial Round for the Future of DNA Synthesis

How about the $100M Holy ‘GRAIL’ in Cancer Diagnostics? A Universal Test Start-up Faces German Competition

Global NGS Leader’s Influence in European Bioinformatics Field is Spreading Interest in Microbiomics

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

“Structural Biology is changing the way we design drugs”

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

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