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Horizon: Validating Verogen’s ForenSeq® Kintelligence FGG Workflow

The Center for Advanced Genomics is validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence workflow for the NDIS-approved MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System, targeting a fall 2021 offering to clients. ForenSeq Kintelligence is a new integrated forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) solution targeting forensically relevant markers along with ancestry, identity, and phenotype markers to estimate... MORE
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SigSci’s Center for Advanced Genomics Validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence Workflow for Forensic Genetic Genealogy

New kit targets forensically relevant markers compatible with degraded and low-input DNA samples. AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 14, 2021 – Forensic scientists from the Center for Advanced Genomics (CAG) at Signature Science are validating the Verogen ForenSeq® Kintelligence workflow for the NDIS-approved MiSeq FGx® Sequencing System. ForenSeq Kintelligence, a new... MORE
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SigSci Develops R Package to Support Accurate U.S. COVID-19 Forecasting

Authors: VP Nagraj, Chris Hulme-Lowe, Stephanie L. Guertin, Stephen D. Turner Abstract: Infectious disease forecasting has been a useful tool for public health planning and messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with the CDC, the organizers of the COVID-19 Forecast Hub have created a mechanism for forecasters from academia, industry, and... MORE
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SigSci Awarded Contract to Develop Single-use Synthetic Opioid Detection System

AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 25, 2021 – The U.S. Navy has awarded a one-year, $292,814.70 contract to Signature Science for the development of a self-contained, single-use lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) system for the detection of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. First responders currently use procedures to detect synthetic opioids that... MORE
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Milton B. Lee Joins Signature Science’s Managers Committee

AUSTIN, TEXAS — March 23, 2021 - Signature Science LLC is pleased to announce that Milton B. Lee, P.E., has joined its Managers Committee. In his accomplished career in the energy sector, Lee led CPS Energy in San Antonio as CEO and General Manager from 2002–2010 and served as COO,... MORE