Roche Announces Thomas Schinecker as New President of 454 Life Sciences

18-Jul-2011 - 454 Life Sciences, a center of excellence of Roche’s business unit Applied Science, announced that effective August 1, 2011, Dr. Thomas Schinecker is appointed Lifecycle Leader for Sequencing and President of 454 Life Sciences, Inc., in Branford, Connecticut, USA, reporting to Robert Yates, Head ...

Deadly E. Coli Strain Sequenced with Roche GS Junior System by HPA Scientists

Provides Community Most Complete Assembly to Date

16-Jun-2011 - The deadly E. coli O104 strain that has killed dozens and hospitalized thousands across Europe has been sequenced using 454 Life Sciences’ benchtop GS Junior sequencing system to generate the “most accurate and detailed genetic analysis to date” of this particularly virulent strain. The ...

Roche and RainDance Technologies Join Forces in Targeted Sequencing to Advance ADME Research

Collaboration to enable scientists to capture known and unknown functional mutations associated with core set of pharmacokinetic and pharmacology genes

09-Mar-2011 - RainDance Technologies, Inc., and 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, announced collaboration for the development and commercialization of a targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) solution for simple and cost-effective investigation of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion ...

Researchers complete draft genome sequence for cassava

11-Nov-2009 - A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. The project is an important first step in accelerating the pace of research on this subsistence crop and addressing some of the many limitations that face cassava farmers ...

454 Life Sciences and Roche NimbleGen Announce Collaboration with Eli Lilly and SeqWright

Sequencing Genomic Regions Associated with Psychiatric Disease

03-Aug-2009 - 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and Roche NimbleGen, both units of Roche Applied Science, have announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company and SeqWright. The goal of this collaboration is to use genomic technologies to identify genetic variants possibly associated with various ...

Researchers to Decode Antarctic Ice Metagenome with the 454 Sequencing System, to Explore the Effects of Climate Change

20-Jul-2009 - For many years, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany have been studying polar and marine environments to improve our understanding of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions and the animal and plant kingdoms of the Arctic and Antarctic. ...

454 Life Sciences and Max Planck Institute Complete Draft 1X Sequence of Neanderthal Genome

Completion of more than 3 billion bases of sequenced Neanderthal DNA brings closure to the sequencing stage of a project initiated two and a half years ago

16-Feb-2009 - Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences announced the completion of the 1X draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome. The announcement draws closure to an ambitious sequencing project initiated by the team in July 2006 and highlights the ...

Applied Biosystems, 454 Life Sciences and Illumina Join 1000 Genomes Project

Biotech Innovators Will Contribute to International Effort To Produce Most Detailed Map of Genetic Variation

13-Jun-2008 - Leaders of the 1000 Genomes Project announced that three firms that have pioneered development of new sequencing technologies have joined the international effort to build the most detailed map to date of human genetic variation as a tool for medical research. The new participants are: Applied ...

Transplantation Safety: New Virus Detected Using Genome Sequencer Technology

11-Feb-2008 - 454 Life Sciences, a part of Roche Applied Science, announced that researchers at Columbia University and Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory have discovered a new virus that was responsible for the deaths of three transplant recipients. The research explains how the previously ...

Researchers use the Genome Sequencer System to sequence and assemble the Pinot Noir Genome

03-Jan-2008 - 454 Life Sciences, a part of Roche Applied Science, announced that researchers from the Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige and Myriad Genetics have used the company's first generation instrument, the Genome Sequencer 20 System, to sequence and assemble the genome of the grape species Pinot ...