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PacBio Secures $900 Million Investment to Support Gene Sequencing

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will make an investment of $900 million into the company to support its gene sequencing research. Shares of Pacific Biosciences soared more than 21% in premarket trading after it was announced SB Management, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp.,

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Gene sequencing identifies rare pediatric disorders in Mexico

BioPharma Reporter

A new genetic sequencing technology from Element Biosciences has helped researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of the City of Hope, identify the likely genetic causes of disorders in six of nine children from Sonora, Mexico.

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Ring 20: Could the rare disease get left behind by next-generation gene sequencing?

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Ring Chromosome 20 Syndrome, or (R)20, is an ultra-rare form of epilepsy with a devastating impact – yet despite huge leaps forward in gene sequencing in recent years, diagnoses are going down instead of up. The post Ring 20: Could the rare disease get left behind by next-generation gene sequencing? appeared first on.

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Hopkins-led research team takes gene mutation detection in blood to the next level

Scienmag

Credit: Elizabeth Cooke Next-generation gene sequencing (NGS) technologies –in which millions of DNA molecules are simultaneously but individually analyzed– theoretically provides researchers and clinicians the ability to noninvasively identify mutations in the blood stream.

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#news #biotech Research team develops software that cuts time, cost from gene sequencing

BioTech 365

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Research team develops software that cuts time, cost from gene sequencing.A

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Deep-learning filter improves precision of cell mutation detection, accuracy of cancer diagnoses

Medical Xpress

Next-generation cancer strategies rely on next-generation gene sequencing (NGS), which paves the way for new techniques and tools to detect mutations and determine patient therapy.

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Researchers identify genes that may increase schizophrenia risk

Drug Discovery World

Researchers have identified two previously unknown genes linked to schizophrenia and newly implicated a third gene as carrying risk for both schizophrenia and autism. The investigators found the two risk genes, SRRM2 and AKAP11, by comparing the gene sequences of people with schizophrenia to those of healthy controls.

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