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 ...

Last December, Ion Torrent, something of an upstart in the sequencing industry, launched its new semiconductor-based sequencing machine. At $50,000, it was a comparatively inexpensive device designed ...

As I recently discovered whilst trying to teach my roommate about torrenting — educationally, of course — downloading illegal stuff off the internet still isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Bitport ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ion Torrent releases its new gene sequencer later on Tuesday, a desktop-printer-sized machine that costs $49,000 -- one-tenth the price of other gene sequencing machines. The ...

Having just recently snapped up sequencing firm Ion Torrent, Life Technologies has now announced the availability of a benchtop DNA sequencing device based on its PostLight semiconductor technology.

Life Technologies took a step Tuesday toward lowering the cost of genetic sequencing and expanding the availability of the revolutionary technology by launching its new Ion Torrent Personal Genome ...

Although the focus on CES is on consumer technology, it’s not unusual to see announcements for products that companies will use to provide services to consumers. Even by that standard, one of the ...

The genetic code of the dangerous E. coli bacteria strain that has killed 17 and sickened more that 1,000 was sequenced in just three days by scientists BGI, a gene research institute in China. The ...