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A new form of genetic testing of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis can provide better information on TB transmission and also trace TB outbreaks more accurately than the current standard test, according to a study from Germany published in this week's PLOS Medicine. A team of researchers led by Stefan Niemann from Forschungszentrum Borstel, Molecular Mycobacteriology, compared the results of the two types of tests on 86 M. tuberculosis isolates from a TB outbreak in the German states...

PENZBERG, Germany and MATSUDO, Japan, December 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche and Precision System Science, Co., Ltd (PSS) today announced the signing of an exclusive agreement to develop and manufacture a fully automated emulsion PCR instrument for Roche's portfolio of next-generation sequencing platforms. It is intended to support Roche's GS Junior and GS FLX+ systems as well as the sequencing platforms that Roche is currently developing. Until now, upfront...

PENZBERG, Germany, December 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - International study presented at American Society of Hematology Meeting demonstrates the potential of 454 Sequencing Systems to comprehensively characterize an individual's blood cancer type to guide personalized therapy decisions At the American Society of Hematology Meeting (ASH) Roche announced today the presentation of results from the large scale study IRON-II through an international research consortium. Based...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Scientists say they have put together a more complete string of genetic letters that may control how well parrots learn to imitate their owners and other noises. Researchers unraveled the certain regions of the parrots' genome using a new technology, single molecule sequencing, and fixing its flaws with data from older DNA-decoding devices. Researchers also decoded hard-to-sequence genetic material from corn and bacteria as proof...

Results from the first use of this technique in the clinic The first report of the diagnostic use of the technique of exome sequencing, where short sequences of DNA are analyzed, shows that it can give good results at low cost, a researcher from The Netherlands will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday). The scientists were able to perform a genetic diagnosis in around 20% of 100 cases of patients with intellectual disability (ID) and 50% of...

BRANFORD, Connecticut and SHENZHEN, China, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BGI, one of the world's largest genomics organizations, announced today that a new Roche GS FLX+ System has been successfully installed at its facility in Shenzhen, China. The goal is to complement the existing array of short read sequencing technologies and enhance BGI's long read sequencing capability. The GS FLX+ System, developed by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, features the unique...

BRANFORD, Connecticut and STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, and SoftGenetics announced today that the two firms have entered into a co-promotion agreement designed to provide users of 454 Sequencing Systems the broad range of next-generation sequencing data analysis options provided by SoftGenetics NextGENe(R) software. NextGENe(R) software is a free standing biologist-friendly software multi-package that is...

BRANFORD, Connecticut, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche announced today the launch and immediate availability of the GS GType TET2/CBL/KRAS and the GS GType RUNX1 Primer Sets for comprehensive genetic variation detection in four key human genes using the company's 454 GS Junior [http://my454.com/products/gs-junior-system/index.asp ] and GS FLX Systems [http://www.454.com/products-solutions/product-list.asp ]. The sequence-based assays offer a new solution for cancer...

BRANFORD, Connecticut, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche announced today the immediate availability of a new software upgrade and further upcoming sequencing performance and workflow improvements to the company's 454 GS Junior System. Now a widely published benchtop next-generation sequencing platform, the GS Junior System is rapidly advancing research worldwide in areas of infectious disease, cancer, environmental microbiology and agriculture[1]. The new software package...

BRANFORD, Connecticut and MADRID, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of researchers from the Hospital Universitario La Paz Research Institute (IdiPAZ, Madrid) [http://www.idipaz.es ], LifeSequencing S.L. (Valencia) [http://www.lifesequencing.com ], Era7 Bioinformatics (Madrid) [http://www.era7bioinformatics.com/en/news.html ] and Roche Spain (Barcelona) announced today the sequencing of the whole genome of three antibiotic resistant strains of Klebsiella pneunomiae...