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The San Diego-based firm also said it expects European customers to get optical genome mapping-based assays for leukemia and FSHD accredited.

The clinical whole-genome sequencing and analysis firm is planning to add Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing to all samples by the end of the year.

A graduate of the Y Combinator startup accelerator, the company combines shallow sequencing and data from a diverse population to predict treatment response.

The US Federal Trade Commission's recent challenge raises the question who Illumina can acquire while remaining a quasi-monopolist for sequencing equipment.

Adaptive Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer Harlan Robins compared the launch of the test to the unveiling of the Tesla Roadster electric sports car.

The company's nucleic acid extraction kits have offered labs relief from COVID-19-related shortages of traditional silica-based bind-wash-elute assays.

The firm also provided preliminary revenues of $950 million for Q4 and reinstated guidance of $3.79 billion to $3.88 billion for 2021.

Angstrom Bio is developing a rapid, scalable coronavirus test that uses nanopore sequencing to detect barcoded PCR products.

Adaptive is rebranding its immunoSeq Dx assay as T-Detect and plans to submit for an EUA for a COVID-19 T-Cell response test by the end of the year.

Illumina thinks the next-generation sequencing cancer testing market will grow to $75 billion over the next 15 years, driven by screening.