Ion Torrent also announced that it has the fastest workflow in the industry, at under eight hours, a threefold improvement since the company's launch six months ago. Scientists have responded to these ...

inexpensive DNA sequencer, introduced a new product that addresses one of the main criticisms of its product, the Personal Genome Machine, or PGM. The PGM was launched in December as a $50,000 ...

The company expects to have the Ion Proton™ benchtop sequencer on the market by the middle of the year. It looks like fulfilling the dream of the $1,000 genome may be just around the corner. Ion ...

CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) and BGI, the world's largest genomics center and service provider, jointly announced that BGI has purchased ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) utilizes massively parallel sequencing to generate thousands of megabases of sequence information per day, opening doors to new research studies that were once ...

The Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai has purchased a suite of 16 next-generation sequencing (NGS) systems and ancillary technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Ion ...

Last December, Ion Torrent, something of an upstart in the sequencing industry, launched its new semiconductor-based sequencing machine. At $50,000, it was a comparatively inexpensive device designed ...

New sequencing technology Ion Torrent has made a splash with a paper in today's issue of Nature. There's no question the high-impact publication is a massive boost for the young platform, now nestled ...

There's been a lot of chatter about DNA entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg and his Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine since I put my cover story on him to bed. Quick recap: his new device, the Ion ...