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News and Trends 13 Nov 2015

We were at the Berlin Office Opening of the Leading German Bioinformatics Company

Berlin is hotspot which is always attracting companies in the Biotech field (including us :p). Molecular Health is a 150-strong Bioinformatic company from Heidelberg (Germany) which has also decided to open an office in the capital, to profit from its proximity to the political system. The opening took place in the new office, which was […]

November 13, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Nov 2015

German Bioinformatics Start-Up wants to Change Studies of GMO Crops

High-Tech Grüenderfonds (HTGF) has invested in a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and University of Tübingen. Computomics’ has a pioneering agricultural project involving next generation sequencing (NGS) of GMO crops. Computomics is the biotech which has caught HTGF’s interest. Based in Tübingen (Germany), this bio-informatics start-up tackle genomic analysis of agricultural […]

November 5, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

We still haven’t fully sequenced the domestic wheat genome! Now the US Dragen chip has the answer for speedy whole-genome analysis, which The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in England will test out for UK food-security research. Dragen is a Bio-IT platform processing chip which has clinical pipelines for many areas in research, including the Microbiome, […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 19 Sep 2015

Swiss Biotech Boom: Life sciences startups dominate top 100 awards

Exciting news for the Swiss biotech frontline! The TOP 100 Start-Up award is hosted by Startup.ch the Swiss start-up platform (through IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen) in collaboration with the major paper Handelszeitung and PME Magazine, ranking the 100 most promising new start up companies. Of these 100, a whopping 68 of these start-ups are in the […]

September 19, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 16 Sep 2015

Desktop Genetics bags €1.87M from top UK business angels to change how you manage your CRIPSR experiments

Gene Editing has been made much easier thanks to CRISPR but managing your genome editing workflow can be a challenge. London-based Desktop Genetics wants to solve this problem and just raised additional funding to accelerate its development. CRISPR is already considered as the biotech revolution of this century. Having an easy tool is one thing, but being […]

September 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 9 Sep 2015

FDA will use a European Bioinformatics tool to keep patients safe

Molecular Health, a bioinformatics company based in Heidelberg, Germany, today announced that it will enter a commercial-licensing agreement with the US Food and Drugs Standard Agency (FDA) to implement their new bioanalytical product SafetyMAP to analyse risk of marketed drugs. Molecular Health (Labiotech Map Profile here), partnered with MD Anderson (TX) early on, doing consultancy […]

September 9, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 12 Jul 2015

Cool iGEM Project: Creating the first Synthetic Biology-based Video Game

It’s iGEM- Time, the world’s biggest synthetic biology competition! Since 2004, students are competing to create, explore and share their innovative ideas in the hot field of synthetic biology. All the teams then go to Boston (not at the MIT anymore since it’s stopped organizing the competition) to be judged and win a prize. Each year, […]

July 12, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 30 Jun 2015

Qiagen vs. Illumina, the next Big Fight in Next-gen Sequencing

Next-gen sequencing is a revolution. San Diego-based Illumina owns most of the market but German giant Qiagen is prepared to disrupt this fact by stepping in massively by the end of the year. The fight has only begun. Imagine you could sequence your genome to discover the disease you may have in the future. What if I told you, […]

June 30, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 29 Jun 2015

6 Things the Digital Revolution already Disrupted in the Biotech Industry

2 weeks ago, I was at NOAH15 in Berlin, one of the biggest European events on Digital, gathering key opinion leaders such as Eric Schmidt from Google or Ariana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post. They all talked about the impact of the recent digital wave, internet and the post-pc area in different industries. Biotech […]

June 29, 2015 - 6 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Jun 2015

American Companies are Invading London’s Biotech Stock Market

[Update: On June 19, Puretech successfully raised $171M – approximately €150M – during its IPO, setting its market cap at €509M] Boston-based PureTech Health plans to raise €147M on the London stock market, following the path of Verseon, a San Diego-based bioinformatic company that raised €92M earlier this month. Is there a new American trend to earn cash in […]

June 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 27 May 2015

Qiagen offers a powerful bioinformatics tool for Next-gen sequencing

Qiagen has launched its Qiagen Clinical Insight bioinformatics content and software platform. The software aims at clinical testing labs that perform next generation sequencing. The platform allows interpreting and reporting on genomic variants identified in the sequencing assays. The Clinical Insight platform is a potent tool that evaluates genomic variants comparing them with published biomedical […]

May 27, 2015 - 1 minutemin - By Lourdes Riquelme

News and Trends 25 Apr 2015

Desktop Genetics launches a new Gene Editing Platform

Desktop Genetics has just launched the DeskGen Platform for gene editing. It combines elements of the Company’s earlier tools, and allows researchers to design genome editing vectors and cloning strategies optimized to their own laboratories and experimental needs. The DeskGen platform gives life scientists the power to expertly design optimized genome editing experiments in any cell […]

April 25, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Julie Lellouche

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We were at the Berlin Office Opening of the Leading German Bioinformatics Company

German Bioinformatics Start-Up wants to Change Studies of GMO Crops

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

Swiss Biotech Boom: Life sciences startups dominate top 100 awards

Desktop Genetics bags €1.87M from top UK business angels to change how you manage your CRIPSR experiments

FDA will use a European Bioinformatics tool to keep patients safe

Cool iGEM Project: Creating the first Synthetic Biology-based Video Game

Qiagen vs. Illumina, the next Big Fight in Next-gen Sequencing

6 Things the Digital Revolution already Disrupted in the Biotech Industry

American Companies are Invading London’s Biotech Stock Market

Qiagen offers a powerful bioinformatics tool for Next-gen sequencing

Desktop Genetics launches a new Gene Editing Platform

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