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General Meeting
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Sequencing Platforms Make a Splash on Marco Island at AGBT Meeting
05/03/2019Despite single cell RNA technologies being front and center at the AGBT meeting in Marco Island, Florida, last week, two new DNA sequencing technology presentations from MGI and Genapsys created their own buzz.

$100 Genome Announced by MGI at AGBT Conference
27/02/2020Speaking in the coveted last slot of this year’s AGBT conference*, the sequencing company MGI presented their newly developed technology and chemistry. The talk promised to be a blockbuster with the title “First $100 genome sequencing enabled by new extreme throughput DNBSEQ platform.” The MGI system can sequence genomes for the cost of $100—a highly […]

Bionano Genomics Data Drives Scientific Discoveries in Solid Tumors and Leukemias, To Be Presented at the 2020 AGBT Conference
21/02/2020SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr®, a platform for ultra-sensitive and ultra-specific structural variation detection in genome analysis, announced today that cancer, genetic disease and genomics researchers using the Saphyr system will present their results at the Advances in […]

10x Genomics Unveils 2020 New Product Pipeline at AGBT
25/02/2020With four panels covering more than 1,000 genes each, the product can get the same results for its targets as whole transcriptome profiling, with just a fifth of the number of reads per cell, 10x Staff Scientist Sarah Taylor told attendees of a lunchtime workshop sponsored by the single-cell, and now spatial, analysis company.

Miroculus Unveils Its Miro Canvas System at AGBT 2020
24/02/2020The Miro Canvas system is able to simplify, automate and miniaturize complex protocols such as NGS library prep, improving library consistency and eliminating the need for complex robotics. The Miroculus platform also decreases sample input requirements and reagent volumes, reducing protocol times and manual interventions, even for users of conventional lab automation.

ReadCoor Launches Spatial Multiomics Platform at AGBT
25/02/2020Interest in the technology was palpable here at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting, where ReadCoor is a bronze-level sponsor. At a Monday afternoon unboxing event, more than 120 people lined up outside the corporate suite — more than could fit inside — to get the first look at the platform.

New England Biolabs® to Showcase Next Generation Sequencing Sample Preparation Innovations at AGBT™ 2020
21/02/2020PSWICH, Mass., Feb. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) General Meeting will feature scientific presentations by NEB scientists and collaborators on discoveries that address challenges across the spectrum of next generation sequencing (NGS) applications.

Shoreline Biome to Present Strain-Level rRNA Amplicon Research at AGBT 2020
21/02/2020FARMINGTON, Conn., Feb. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company that develops tools for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, will present a poster at the 2020 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) General Meeting.

Twist Bioscience Launches New NGS Solutions, Highlights Customers at 2020 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Conference
24/02/2020Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the Twist Targeted Methylation Sequencing Solution to study methylation pattern changes in a wide range of research fields including cancer, epigenetics and non-invasive prenatal testing is now available for early access […]

Promega introduces Wizard HMW DNA Extraction Kit ahead of AGBT 2020
25/02/2020Promega Corporation, a global biotechnology manufacturer, today launched its new Wizard® HMW DNA Extraction Kit for researchers working with large fragments of genomic DNA. The kit, as demonstrated in a poster presented at this week’s 2020 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting, enables researchers to obtain DNA that will provide strong performance in long-read […]

NanoString Highlights Groundbreaking Spatial Genomics Research Using Expanding Portfolio of GeoMx High-Plex RNA Atlas Products at 2020 Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference
20/02/2020NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, today announced ten scientific studies utilizing the GeoMx™ Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP) that will be showcased at the 2020 Advances in the Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference being held at the JW Marriott in Marco Island, Florida. These […]

Sequencing’s Stars Urge Exploration of New Dimensions
01/04/2020A casual observer might have failed to see past the merriment—the sun and sand, the food and drink, the singing and dancing. But make no mistake, despite occurring in a resort atmosphere, the most recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting was mostly business.
Precision Health Meeting
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Vertex’s David Altshuler Humanizes Drug Discovery
13/09/2018To kick off the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) precision health meeting held in La Jolla, California early this September, David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president of global research and CSO at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, shared his perspective on “humanizing drug discovery.”
AGBT Ag Meeting
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