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How an entire institution successfully integrated genomics into everyday care Orginally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / January 28, 2025 / Over the last 20 years, precision medicine has become the standard of care, but for many hospitals, the complexity of the process has made it challenging to integrate or manage efficiently and at scale. To be successful, health care organizations need to think about how to educate physicians and staff system-wide, how to...

What's it like to build the software in a brand-new sequencer? Illumina's Aneesh Natarajan takes us on the journey Originally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / January 22, 2025 / Illumina recently launched the MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems, two powerful, compact benchtop sequencers that incorporate more than 140 invention disclosures and 60 patent families. Through a series of News Center articles, we are celebrating outstanding employees who helped...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 16, 2025 / Illumina Professor Neil Gemmell has a new plan to expand environmental DNA collection from the legendary lake Originally published on Illumina News Center The platypus is a venomous mammal that lays eggs, can sense electricity, and has 10 sex chromosomes. The tuatara is a reptile from a lineage that evolved before most dinosaurs (and all lizards). The bluehead wrasse is a fish that can change sex. And the Loch Ness monster is, according to the...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 18, 2024 / Illumina How would it feel to know the work you do each day is impacting human health on a global scale? As genomics enables a new era of heath care, Illumina technology is empowering personalized care - improving health outcomes for all. Regardless of background, department, or job function, a commitment to this work connects every Illumina employee. Meet three professionals working at Illumina to discover what it's like to know your work is...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 16, 2024 / Illumina How Illumina's Erin Imsand and her team helped develop reagents that can be stored at room temperature Originally published on Illumina News Center Illumina recently launched the MiSeq i100 and MiSeq i100 Plus Systems , two powerful, compact benchtop sequencers that incorporate more than 140 invention disclosures and 60 patent families. On our News Center, we are celebrating outstanding employees who helped develop this breakthrough...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 12, 2024 / Illumina The comprehensive method provides improved detection and greater insight on the complex disease that impacts millions of people worldwide Originally published on Illumina News Center The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society estimates that by year end, 2024 will have seen 187,740 Americans diagnosed with a blood cancer-or about one person every three minutes. This unfortunate statistic belies the difficulty of arriving at a diagnosis and...

The new study published in Nature Biotechnology validates all of the software's germline algorithms Originally published on Illumina News Center NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / December 10, 2024 / Illumina Vice President of Bioinformatics James Han has been in the industry for decades-so he's witnessed every stride the company has made in that time. "Illumina has worked tirelessly for the last 20 years to improve sequencing," he says. "We brought the cost of a genome from hundreds of...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / November 22, 2024 / Illumina A 523-gene oncology panel identifies actionable tumor variations and improves outcomes Originally published on Illumina News Center A large, multiyear study conducted by Illumina, Providence, and Microsoft Research has shown that a comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) panel, which can assess more than 500 genetic variations in tumors, is a powerful tool to direct patients to the most advanced precision therapies that improve overall...