Canada using DNA technologies to speed up agricultural imports and exports
In Canada, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is using DNA-based technologies to help speed up the...
Genomix Nutrition Aquires Advanced Genomics’s Nutrigenomic Lab
In Texas, Genomix Nutrition, a nutrigenomic testing company, acquired Advanced Genomics's nutrigenomic lab in San Antonio. Genomix will now handle DNA testing in-house as...
Microbes Convert Plastic Waste Into Fertilizer, Heat and Energy
In Australia, POET Systems developed two new machines as part of the first system to use anaerobic digestion technology to turn plastic waste into...
Gold rush! Bacteria poops out gold nuggets
In Germany, researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg found that the bacterium called Cupriavidus metallidurans eats up toxic metallic compounds, continues to live...
Get Your Own Customized Beer Creation Based on Your DNA
In the United Kingdom, genetics and brewing beer are converging. You can have your cheek swabbed to gather your DNA and a beer created...
Pee powered cell phones – microbes and urine provide power at music festival
In the United Kingdom, pee powered electricity was a success at the recent Glastonbury music festival where toilets using microbial fuel cells and live...
Genome sequencing for all – Google releases DeepVariant as open source
In California, Google released the open source version of DeepVariant, a deep learning technology to reconstruct the true genome sequence from HTS sequencer data....
Biobased Chemicals Gaining Ground with Venture Capital Investments
In Massachusetts, Lux Research published a report highlighting where venture capitalists are focusing their investing in biobased industries. They found that since 2010, venture...
Government to cover genomic testing for Medicare cancer patients
In Maryland, the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said that diagnostic laboratory tests using Next Generation Sequencing would be covered...
Meat Eating Plants in Different World Regions Share Same Genetic Evolution
In New York, researchers conducted a genetic analysis on three types of remotely related pitcher plants from Australia, Asia and America and found that...