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Roche | May 13, 2020

KAPA HyperExome is a state-of-the-art whole exome research panel with improved performance over the on-market SeqCap portfolio, providing improved coverage and uniformity. The KAPA Target Enrichment portfolio empowers clinical researchers to process more sa...

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Absci | October 23, 2021

Absci Corporation the drug and target discovery company harnessing deep learning AI and synthetic biology to expand the therapeutic potential of proteins, today announced the opening of its new campus located in Vancouver, Washington, a few miles east of the downtown location that housed the company for the last four years. “Absci has been an incredibly positive force in the Vancouver community since establishing its headquarters here in 2016 I have fol...

Labiotech.eu | January 27, 2020

Most treatments for inflammatory diseases have single targets, such as an inflammation-promoting cytokine or a protein complex called an inflammasome. Quench Bio is taking aim at a family of proteins involved in inflammatory cell death—and it’s picked up $50 million to do so. Seeded by Atlas Venture and Arix Bioscience and incubated at Atlas since its inception in 2018, Quench's first target is gasdermin D, the best understood member of the gasdermin family of proteins. With its ...

Labiotech.eu | January 28, 2020

A study led by Oxitec has shown for the first time that diamondback moths genetically engineered to produce only male offspring can survive in the wild, a solution that shows promise for cutting populations of the crop pest. Caterpillars of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella are one of the most destructive pests for growers of cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers. Rising resistance to insecticides is making it progressively more difficult for farmers to deal with the insects effectively....