The mapping of the human genome, announced at the White House back in 2000, had immense impact on biomedical research. It allowed us to gain insights into how biological information is encoded in the ...

Last week, Life Technologies (LIFE) introduced the new Benchtop Ion Proton sequencer in India. The significance of the emerging markets cannot be over-emphasized for companies like Life Tech. As a ...

In our recent best of 2011 post, we wrote about the plummeting costs of genome sequencing, and just days into the new year another big leap has been taken. Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies ...

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 ...

All thanks to the Ion Torrent semiconductor. Turns out this great innovation—a portable genome sequencing machine—owes its success to breakthroughs in chips. The company that builds the Ion Proton ...

1. Life Technologies introduces the Benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer. It is designed to sequence a Human Genome in one day for $1,000. The Ion Proton™ Sequencer, priced at $149,000, is based on the next ...

In a clinical diagnostic laboratory, we evaluated the applicability of the Ion Proton sequencer for screening 409 cancer-related genes in solid tumours. In a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment ...

NYGC and its Institutional Founding Members (IFM's) will use the sequencers to accelerate research of difficult-to-treat cancers and other diseases The Ion Proton™ Sequencer is a complementary ...

The Ion Proton™ Sequencer, priced at $149,000, is based on the next generation of semiconductor sequencing technology that has made its predecessor, the Ion Personal Genome Machine™ (PGM™), the ...

Dr. Richard Gibbs, the Director of the BCM-HGSC said: “We're pleased the Proton installation went so quickly and smoothly. We are now generating all the raw data ...

Life Technologies announced that its Ion Proton Sequencer benchtop that will sequence an entire human genome for less than 1,000 dollars in a day, will be on show for the first time in the Middle East ...