QIAGEN and ICMP to develop first NGS workflow for identification of missing persons
Yahoo Finance reported yesterday that QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) have announced collaboration on a project to enhance ICMP’s ability to identify missing persons using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. QIAGEN and ICMP will work together at ICMP’s laboratory in The Hague to develop and validate a complete NGS solution, including QIAGEN’s “Sample to Insight” GeneReader NGS System* and other QIAGEN workflow solutions, as well as innovative forensic panels designed for identification of missing persons using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). http://yhoo.it/2cPTOsh
Colombia: Authorities exhume 91 possible conflict victims in just one village
Colombia Reports carried a story yesterday on the investigation unit formed to exhume the bodies of people presumed to be among the tens of thousands of “disappeared”. The Unit announced on Wednesday that it had exhumed 91…