Related to Pilot Phase of 1000 Genomes Project Identifies 8 Million New Genetic Variants

• Life Technologies and UCSD Enter CLL Sequencing Research Program
  
• Investigators Elucidate Genetic Differences in Those Who Develop Meningitis
  
• NIH Bankrolls Six Centers with $100M to Characterize Human Immune Responses
  
• Life Tech Snaps Up Ion Torrent in $375–$725M Deal for Semiconductor Sequencing Platform
  
• SeqWright Adds Illumina’s HiSeq 2000 to Its Sequencing Offerings
  
• FDA Selects Ariana’s KEM Platform for Biomarker Signature Validation
  
• UCSF Wins Two NIH Grants Worth $15.1M to Progress Pharmacogenomics Research
  
• Horizon Teams Up with U.K.’s ICR to Identify Lethality Genes for Specific Cancers
  
• Good Start Genetics Scores $18M to Advance Prepregnancy Genetic Test
  
• GATC Selected as First EU Service Provider for Pacific Biotech
  
• GATC Opens Unit to Achieve Goal of Sequencing 100,000 Human Genomes by 2014
  
• Eurofins to Provide Roche GS Junior for Smaller-Scale Projects
  
• IDT to Provide Custom Primers for Sequencing on 454’s GS FLX and GS Junior Platforms
  
• GeneGo and GenomeQuest Combine Tools for Analyzing NGS Data in Terms of Pathways
  
• Cellectis Bioresearch Sets Up U.S. Subsidiary to Promote Targeted Genome Engineering Products
  
• Fluidigm and 454 to Co-Promote Access Array and Sequencing Systems Worldwide
  
• Illumina to Co-Market Caliper Technologies to Improve Sequencing Workflows
  
• Pacific Biosciences Looks to Raise $200M through $16 per Share IPO
  
• Myriad to Conduct BRCA Mutation Testing for Abbott’s Phase III Study
  
• Roche and DNA Electronics to Develop Semiconductor-Based Sequencing System