Tue 12th February 2019 – Decision defeats attempts by PacBio to prevent Oxford Nanopore from selling its technology in the US – Oxford Nanopore announces that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld the decision of the International Trade Commission (ITC) in favour of Oxford Nanopore. In a complaint previously filed... Read more
New generation direct cDNA and PCR-cDNA 109 Kits provide full-length cDNA transcripts at high yields. Oxford Nanopore has launched new ‘109’ cDNA Kits for its real-time, scalable sequencing technology. The new kits provide high throughput whilst generating complete sequences of full-length cDNA strands, with a low input option of just 1ng PolyA+ RNA. The new cDNA sequencing... Read more
January 22, 2019 09:04 AM Pacific Standard Time OXFORD, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the European Patent Office revoked Pacific Biosciences patent EP3045542 with claims to a single molecule sequencing process wherein two strands of DNA are linked by a connecting nucleic acid. The validity of the patent had been challenged by Oxford Nanopore. The EPO ruled that... Read more
Thu 18th October 2018 THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. and OXFORD, England – (Oct. 18, 2018) – Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. today announced Amgen’s equity investment of £50 million ($66 million) in Oxford Nanopore, a privately-owned, UK-based company advancing a new generation of portable, real-time genetic sequencing technology. Oxford Nanopore has developed and brought to... Read more
MinIT is out – an analysis and device control accessory to enable powerful, real-time DNA/RNA sequencing by anyone, anywhere Wed 10th October 2018 MinIT, a rapid analysis and device control accessory for nanopore DNA sequencing, is now arriving with genomics researchers. Scientists will use it to run the MinION DNA/RNA sequencer, opening up high-throughput, real-time... Read more
Fri 5th October 2018 Oxford Nanopore has released a new version of MinION and GridION flow cells that include the new ‘Rev D’ ASIC. The new release extends the amount of time that flow cells can be used for DNA sequencing or RNA sequencing, increasing the overall yields of DNA sequence data to as much... Read more
Thu 30th August 2018 Photo courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Centre This week, for the first time, direct RNA sequencing (mapping the order of bases on a native strand of RNA) has been successfully carried out in space. Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold used the Oxford Nanopore MinION to sequence strands... Read more
MENLO PARK, Calif., May 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leader in long-read, high-resolution sequencing, today announced that it has entered into a five-year settlement agreement with Oxford Nanopore and other parties of patent infringement litigation between the parties in the United Kingdom and Germany, under which Oxford Nanopore... Read more
Wed 9th May 2018 Oxford Nanopore and Pacific Biosciences have agreed to discontinue UK and German litigation. In the settlement, Oxford Nanopore agreed not to sell its 2D kits in UK and Germany. 2D is, in any case, obsolete and was globally discontinued in May 2017, when Oxford Nanopore replaced it with the superior 1D^2... Read more
Tue 24th April 2018 With the addition of three new service providers, we recap some of the work that is underway around the world by labs offering nanopore sequencing as a service. KeyGene KeyGene is the go-to AgBiotech company for higher crop yield & quality. Our goal is to help organizations with their toughest R&D... Read more