New sequencing technology Ion Torrent has made a splash with a paper in today's issue of Nature. There's no question the high-impact publication is a massive boost for the young platform, now nestled ...

Yesterday, Life Technologies announced it was buying sequencing start-up Ion Torrent for $375 million. I called the deal "a smart move." John Sullivan, who follows Life for investment bank Leerink ...

There's been a lot of chatter about DNA entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg and his Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine since I put my cover story on him to bed. Quick recap: his new device, the Ion ...

The company expects to have the Ion Proton™ benchtop sequencer on the market by the middle of the year. It looks like fulfilling the dream of the $1,000 genome may be just around the corner. Ion ...

Sub-$100,000 mid-scale benchtop system expected this year. Life Technologies is buying Ion Torrent for $375 million in cash and shares. Ion shareholders could receive another $350 million in cash and ...

Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ion Torrent for $375 million in cash and stock. The sellers are ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Ion Torrent Systems Inc., a DNA sequencing system developer ...

Here I review the applications of Ion Torrent NGS technology in the field of microbiome research and some recent publications about it. With Ion Torrent 16S rRNA next generation sequencing, there are ...

Background: detection of resistance-associated mutations is well established in HIV ART (as DRMs) and is increasingly used in HCV patients selected for treatment (as RAVs) with direct acting antiviral ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) utilizes massively parallel sequencing to generate thousands of megabases of sequence information per day, opening doors to new research studies that were once ...

More huge news in the sequencing industry, following on fromthe public share offer from Pacific Biosciences - relative newcomer to the field, Ion Torrent, has just been bought by Life Technologies for ...