DNA Therapeutics Closes 2.2 Million EUR Series A Financing Round.
EVRY, France, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA Therapeutics, an emerging biopharmaceutical company specialized in the development of innovat0ive medicines in oncology, announces the successful closing of its Series A equity investment round. The investor syndicate led by SGAM SEFTI with two of the previous seed investors, Blue Medical Investments...

Epigenetics: from islands to the shores: tissue-specific DNA tagging found in unexpected regions.
Tattoos on the skin can say a lot about a person. On a deeper level, chemical tattoos on a person's DNA are just as distinctive and individual--and say far more about a person's life history. A pair of reports published online January 18 in Nature Genetics show...

Ancestry.com Invests in Future of Genetic Genealogy by Offering DNA Testing for Only $79.
Affordable Access to DNA Testing Reveals Family History, Genetic Cousins, Ancestral Occupations, Geographic Origins and More PROVO, Utah, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, has reduced the prices of its genetic genealogy DNA tests, allowing consumers more affordable access to...

Detection of DNA hypomethylation mediated floral induction in longan and spinach using the HAT-RAPD technique.
INTRODUCTION Many plants in temperate zones require a low temperature stress (vernalization) to induce flowering and fruit production. In some plants such as Arabidopsis and Cichorium intybus the vernalization response has been linked to changes in DNA methylation (1), (2), while the seedlings of other plants like...

Complete Genomics to Release Its DNA Sequencing Data for the First Time at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Annual Meeting.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Complete Genomics Inc., a newly launched, third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced that it will release its sequencing data publically for the first time at the 10th annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting to be held in Marco...

Artemis Health Licenses Prenatal Cell-Free DNA Analysis Technology from Stanford University.
-- New Technology May Allow Development of Accurate Blood Test for Common Genetic Disorders Early in Pregnancy -- MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Artemis Health Inc., a privately-held company dedicated to the development of non-invasive prenatal diagnostic tests, today announced that it has acquired a...

Rubicon Genomics Announces a Licensing Agreement With Abbott to Develop and Commercialize DNA Methylation Cancer Tests.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Rubicon Genomics today announced a licensing agreement with Abbott, which marks the achievement of significant milestones within their on-going Research and Option Agreement for development and commercialization of Rubicon MethylPlex(TM) methylation detection technology for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. ...

A Milestone in Cancer Genetics: deCODE Discovers First Common Genetic Variants Affecting the Risk of Many Types of Cancer.
Findings point to common mechanisms of susceptibility to cancers of the lung, bladder, prostate, cervix and skin; findings to be integrated into deCODEme(TM), the new deCODEme Cancer Scan(TM), and deCODE's DNA-based risk diagnostic tests REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scientists at deCODE genetics and colleagues from...

deCODE Receives California Clinical Laboratory License.
Californians can now Enjoy the Benefits of deCODE's Market-Leading DNA-Based Disease Risk Assessment Tests and Pioneering deCODEme(TM) Genome Scans REYKJAVIK, February 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics today announced that it has received a clinical laboratory license from the State of California. The quality and scale of deCODE's...

Stories From Our Foremothers: deCODE Publishes an Unparalleled Genetic Snapshot of Iceland 1000 Years Ago.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a paper published today scientists at deCODE genetics present the results of the largest study of ancient DNA from a single population ever undertaken. Analyzing mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to offspring, from 68 skeletal remains from approximately 1000 years...