The jury said the infringement, which involved patents on two-channel sequencing chemistry technology, had been “willful” and turned down Illumina’s counterclaims. 

Net Scientific's portfolio company and circulating tumor cell capture specialist Vortex Biosciences adds to its board of directors Deborah Neff, ex-chief operating officer of Complete Genomics and a former BD executive.

The number of Chinese IVD companies exhibiting at the 2015 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Annual Meeting (AACC) & Clinical Lab Expo (CLE) was slightly down from last year, but the breadth of diagnostic products and innovations from China appears to be on the up. Hrishi Poola and Jon Chen discuss the moves China is making to become a generator of disruptive technologies and reports on the new products and the players emerging from this market

From screening for cancer to providing individualized treatment, from rare diseases to the first in vitro fertilized (IVF) baby with modified genes, China has much to offer in the heating global race for next generation gene sequencing. Big data and the internet of genomics are just some examples, says Wang Jun, CEO of BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization.