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11 years ago

At a recent Ion World event right before this year's ASHG meeting in Boston, Dr. Eric Topol gave a keynote…

Update from BioNano Genomics at #ASHG2013

11 years ago

Almost a year ago I wrote up this post about a startup called BioNano Genomics, which was hard at work…

Next-Generation Sequencer GnuBIO

11 years ago

There are two next-generation sequencing 'platforms' (i.e. systems) that are being prepared for commercial launch; one from QIAGEN (that I…

Formulatrix and an inexpensive digital PCR for NGS library quantitation

11 years ago

The American Society for Human Genetics 2013 Annual Meeting was held this week in Boston. Starting from Tuesday and going…

Ion Chef, PII Chip, Isothermal Template Prep and a new Hi-Q Enzyme at Ion World 2013

12 years ago

Over the two days right before the annual ASHG (American Society of Human Genetics) meeting in Boston, Life Technologies held…

The new QuantStudio 3D™ digital PCR instrument

12 years ago

You may (or may not) have heard about digital PCR, which is set to be the next application set to…

The Fluidigm C1™ Single Cell Auto Prep System

12 years ago

Every human being came from a single cell. While that fact may not be so obvious in our day-to-day routine,…

Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome – 294,000 primer pair PCR

12 years ago

Today Ion Torrent launches a neat product based upon a highly multiplexed technology called AmpliSeq, called the Ion AmpliSeq Exome,…

Sony, microfluidics, and a novel flow cytometer i-Cyt

12 years ago

It was something of a surprise to see Sony exhibit at the AACR meeting, and a bit more of a…

The next NGS platform – the QIAGEN GeneReader™

12 years ago

Earlier this year at the February AGBT Conference, a person from QIAGEN came over to the Ion Torrent suite and…