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SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HALO) today announced the appointment of Matt Posard to its Board of Directors. Mr. Posard is currently Senior Vice President and General Manager of Translational & Consumer Genomics at Illumina, Inc. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100302/LA63139LOGO) "We welcome Matt to our Board of Directors. His strategic marketing experience will complement Halozyme's Board well as we increase our...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and BOSTON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and genomics analysis solutions, and GeneInsight®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Partners HealthCare and a leading developer of software to support reporting for genetic testing laboratories, today announced that they will collaborate on an integrated workflow solution, encompassing the annotation, analysis, assessment and reporting of human variants from...

BALTIMORE, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Exemplar LIMS(TM) has been selected as the primary lab management and electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution for NY Genome Center's laboratory operations. Sapio's LIMS system will initially track next generation sequencing workflows from the Illumina family of sequencers from request through analysis. Support for additional next gen sequencers will be added as needed. Sapio's LIMS software will be deployed on Apple iPads(TM) using...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online This week, geneticists from the New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute announced they have successfully completed the genomic sequencing of the chile pepper, marking the first time the feat has ever been done with the famously spicy plant. “This puts NMSU and the Chile Pepper Institute on the cutting edge with a new level of research,” Paul Bosland, an NMSU professor and director of the Institute, said in a...

HOUSTON, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest processor of full mitochondria sequences, Gene By Gene, Ltd., today announced the launch of DNA DTC to offer highly reliable and competitively priced genomic testing solutions to institutional customers as well as to the Direct-to-Consumer market. Genomic investigators at life science companies, contract research organizations, academic institutions and public-sector research facilities now have access to the company's...

IPSWICH, Mass., Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) launched their new NEBNext(®) "Ultra" kits at the recent American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting. These kits provide streamlined, low-input methods to prepare DNA and RNA libraries for Illumina(®) next generation sequencing. The supplied protocols and reagents are designed to maximize useful data from a broad range of samples, including those available in limited amounts. (Logo:...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and analysis solutions, today highlighted strong adoption of its Variant Analysis platform at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Variant Analysis, a web-based analysis application, answers a critical need for researchers trying to rapidly identify relevant casual variants in human diseases from re-sequencing data. Over the past 6...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Insiderslab.com has issued insider trading reports and Equity Research for the following companies: JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN), CYS Investments (NYSE:CYS), U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100419/HKM001LOGO ) (Read full report by clicking the link below, you may need to copy and paste the full link to your...

ORANGE, Calif., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a pilot study designed to advance personalized treatment for children and teens battling recurrent cancer, the Hyundai Cancer Institute at CHOC Children's is the first organization to utilize Illumina's RapidTrack Whole Genome Sequencing (RapidTrack WGS) service for cancer samples. RapidTrack WGS will enable the study to gather whole genome sequencing data in high depth within 14 days, which is the fastest sample-to-data...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Picarro Inc. today announced the appointment of two new members to its executive team. Suresh Pisharody has joined the company as vice president of marketing and Tim Clark has joined as vice president of business development for the energy sector. Together, Pisharody and Clark will strengthen Picarro's commercial leadership team as the company continues to gain traction globally with its gas concentration and stable isotope...