What You Should Know:
- Watchmaker Genomics, a life sciences company specializing in the development of high-stringency applications focused on the reading, writing, and editing of DNA and RNA raises $40M in an oversubscribed Series A, bringing total funding to date to $53.5M. The round was led by Decheng Capital, with co-investment from Eclipse Ventures.
- Watchmaker Genomics applies advanced enzymology to enable breakthrough applications for the reading, writing, and
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Clinical Sequencing
Genoox Raises $6M to Bring Clinical Genomics to U.S. Medical Centers
Genoox, a genomic analysis startup making it easier for doctors, clinicians and researchers to analyze and act on genetic sequencing results by applying various clinical applications has announced a $6 million investment today, led by Triventures and joined by Inimiti Capital Partners and Glilot Capital Partners. Genetic analysis takes other systems hours, but takes Genoox minutes, enabling clinical genomics to become available to millions who don’t have access to top 10 academic centers.Founded
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Genoox & Bionano Partner to Detect Disease-Causing Structural Variants
Genoox, a genetic data analysis company, recently partnered with Bionano Genomics to better identify the nearly 20k potentially disease-causing SVs in the human genome. By combining Genoox technology and Bionano mapping data, the new Genoox integrated platform will offer clinicians a single platform for accurate detection of genetic mutations for rare disease. Genoox and Bionano intend to co-sell and co-market the integrated platform for research and future clinical applications.Children’s
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HL7 Publishes Domain Analysis Model for Clinical Sequencing: 5 Things to Know
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), an authority for health IT interoperability and provider of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, today announced that it has published the HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, a model which captures precision medicine’s use cases to facilitate interoperability of genetic and genomic data. Here are five things to know about the new model: 1. . This domain analysis model (DAM) was the basis for the design of FHIR
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