Here’s a summary of the key product launches from late April to late May, 2019:
| NEWLY LAUNCHED PRODUCTS & SERVICES | ||
| Company(ies) | Product(s)/Service(s) | |
| Biocept | Target Selector NGS Lung Panel assay | |
| New England Biolabs | Monarch Genomic DNA Purification Kit for high-yield purification of high-molecular-weight DNA fragments | |
| New England Biolabs | NEBNext Enzymatic Methyl-seq (EM-seq), enzyme-based method for methylation sequencing | |
| Novacyt (via Primerdesign) | Genesig q32 NGS molecular testing instrument | |
| Integrated DNA Technologies | Custom NGS adapters | |
| Custom NGS adapters | Lotus DNA Library Prep kit, enzymatic library preparation solution for whole-genome sequencing and hybridization capture | |
| The Sequencing Center | Human whole-genome sequencing service for medical research | |
| Roche | cobas MTB-RIF/INH test to detect antibiotic resistance within tuberculosis DNA | |
| Arc Bio | Galileo Pathogen Solution, a metagenomics NGS kit for research-use-only to detect and quantify viral species associated with transplants | |
| Arc Bio | Galileo Pathogen Solution, a research-use-only NGS test for monitoring post-transplant patients for viral infections | |
| CareDx + Cibiltech | Multi-modal kidney transplant diagnostic test to include its AlloSure blood-based donor-derived cell-free DNA test, its AlloMap gene expression test + Cibiltech’s predictive AI algorithm | |
| BillionToOne | Unity, a prenatal genetic screening test combining maternal carrier screening for five single-gene recessive disorders with reflex noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) of fetus | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | MagMax nucleic acid isolation kits, including: * MagMax Microbiome Ultra Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit * MagMax Viral/Pathogen Ultra Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit * MagMax Viral/Pathogen Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit |
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| Thermo Fisher Scientific | Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 6 and 7 Pro Real-Time PCR systems | |
| Hologic | Upgrades to Panther molecular diagnostics system aimed to drive adoption in large clinical labs | |
| Human Diagnostics Worldwide + Eiken Chemical + the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics | Malaria-LAMP for detection of malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax parasites | |
| Pacific Biosciences | Sequel II single-molecule sequencing instrument | |
| Cell Microsystems | New software for its AIR system | |
| MycoDART | MycoDART-PCR, dual amplification real-time PCR DNA test for rapid detection of Candida aurus | |
