Yourgene Sage 32 Plex

Yourgene Health has launched the Sage 32 plex test, a high-throughput noninvasive prenatal testing and analysis solution for clinical laboratories. It runs on Thermo Fisher Scientific's Ion Torrent sequencing platform and allows 32 samples to be processed in parallel. The test, which will be available internationally, has improved performance due to workflow enhancements and upgraded analysis methods. Yourgene plans to launch a CE-IVD-marked version of the library preparation kit for the Sage 32 plex workflow in the coming months. The Sage test differs from Yourgene's other NIPT, the Iona test, in that it screens for a wider range of conditions, including trisomies 21, 18, and 13; sex chromosome aneuploidies; and clinically relevant microdeletions. The analysis uses a cloud-based bioinformatics solution called Sage Link.