Healio

‘Glass half full’: Next-generation sequencing for advanced cancer lags, but rates improving

Nearly half of people diagnosed with advanced cancer over a recent 5-year period did not undergo next-generation sequencing, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.Rates improved over ...

Foundation Medicine Expands Existing Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to Develop a Next-Generation Sequencing Companion Diagnostic to Identify Patients with Homozygous ...

Foundation Medicine, Inc., a global precision medicine company, today announced an expansion to its collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) to develop FoundationOne®CDx as a ...
Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

FDA drafts guidance on using next-generation sequencing to assess gene therapy safety

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft guidance on how sponsors can utilize next-generation sequencing ...
Kaleido Scope

NEXT GEN SEQUENCING AND DELETION/DUPLICATION ANALYSIS OF NF1 and SPRED1 ONLY (NFSP-NG)

Patients with multiple CALMs w/wo skinfold freckling and no other typical NF1 associated features (Lisch nodules, bone abnormalities, neurofibromas, optic pathway gliomas). The DNA-based ...
The Manila Times

ACT Genomics Upgrades Clinically Recognized Genomic Test to 101-Gene Panel with 7-Day Turnaround

ACT Genomics today announced a significant upgrade to the ACTDrug® series, its next-generation sequencing (NGS) genomic ...
RAPS

Next-Gen Sequencing, Statistical Tools Key to Trans-Tumor Drug Development

Key challenges to developing "trans-tumor" targeted therapies are outlined in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine published Thursday by Fabrice André, head of the predictive biomarkers ...
Morningstar

Ultima Genomics Introduces the Next Generation of Sequencing at Scale with the Launch of the UG200™ Series and Next Generation Solaris 2.0 Workflows Delivering Higher Output ...

Twice the output, half the runtime, and half the footprint of the UG 100® with greater flexibility and improved genomic coverage Introducing two new high-throughput instrument configurations ...
Kaleido Scope

NEXT GEN SEQUENCING AND DELETION/DUPLICATION ANALYSIS OF NF1 ONLY (NF1-NG)

Patients with classic NF1 including the presence of cutaneous neurofibromas or Lisch nodules, as no genetic heterogeneity demonstrated so far associated with this phenotype. The NF1-only by NGS ...