Keith Meister, Corvex Management’s chief investment officer, will join Illumina’s board starting March 28. He’s no stranger ...

Beijing banned imports of Illumina’s gene-sequencing machines in response to U.S. tariffs.

China banned the import of Illumina Inc. gene-sequencing machines as part of a wave of retaliatory measures against fresh US tariffs on all Chinese goods, deepening the US company’s woes in one ...

In genome sequencing, everything needs to be just right. It should be just right in terms of data quality, turnaround time, cost, and equipment ease of use. In some cases, those criteria are crucial.

With the savings, they have been able to sequence more. “Without this machine, we can't do anything at the scale we're working on,” Zhao says. Elaine Mardis, co-director of the Genome ...

Finally, a computer processes the data from the sequencing machine and compiles a list of tags. By comparing the tags to a sequence database, the researchers can identify the mRNA (and ultimately ...

DIY DNA on a Chip: Introducing the Personal Genome Machine DNA sequencing technology isn't exactly accessible; a typical sequencing machine can easily cost $500,000. Ion Torrent aims to change that.