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Fortis Life Sciences acquires nanoComposix

Fortis Life Sciences has completed its acquisition of nanoComposix, a premiere nanomaterials company focused on solutions for assay development and diagnostics.  Since 2004, nanoComposix has built one of the most comprehensive nanomaterials portfolios in the industry.  nanoComposix’s nanomaterials are used in a wide array of Life Sciences applications, including drug delivery, diagnostics and imaging, as […]

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Together, big data, bench science and genome-wide diagnostics predict genomic instability that can lead to disease

They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million copies are scattered among and between our genes. Called Alu elements, these relatively short (approximately 300 Watson-Crick base pairs), repetitive non-coding sequences of DNA have been implicated in the rapid evolution of humans and non-human primate species. Unfortunately, these repeats […]