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~Improved RNA-Seq data quality and lower sequencing costs enabled April 24, 2014 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN CARLOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a market leader in the development of sample preparation solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications, has ...

from Biotechniques by Jeffrey M. Perkel, PhD By combining technologies, a new method reports both the expression and localization of thousands of RNA transcripts simultaneously. How will this approach change the way we see gene expression? Find out… When researchers ...

from SFARI.org by Michael Talkowski, James Gusella Measuring RNA expression from individual genes provides one route to novel insights in understanding human disorders such as autism. For example, it may reveal the impact of a genetic mutation on the gene ...

from Zone in with Zon How’s the World Celebrating? My Top 3 “Likes” for 2014 DNA Day Where’s the Love for RNA Day? The Why, What and Where of DNA Day DNA Day is celebrated on April 25 and commemorates ...

Gene expression studies are widely diffused in life science research. So far, the most popular techniques adopted for transcript quantification are Northern blot, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), microarrays, and RNA ...

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Knowledge of driver mutations is essential to research and development in the pharmaceutical industry for the identification of novel populations and discovery of new cancer drug targets. Gene over-expression is one of the prevalent cancer driver events, but ...

from the Cornell Chronicle by Carly Hodes Cornell scientists exploring the road from genes to proteins can access a new research service that helps map some of its more mysterious turns. The university has established the RNA Sequencing Core (RSC) ...

Illumina Expands Product Portfolio to Support Oncology Clinical Research and Discovery End-to-End Genomics Solutions Will Transform the Future of Oncology SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr. 2, 2014– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced new products that can be applied directly to the discovery ...

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 31, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II, today announced the release of a software upgrade for its Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) DNA Sequencing platform. SMRT Analysis ...

Integration of Ingenuity® Pathway Analysis and Maverix Analytic Platform Streamlines Biological Interpretation of RNA-seq Studies SAN MATEO, Calif., April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Maverix Biomics Inc. today announced that the company has extended its strategic co-marketing agreement with QIAGEN by ...