Our hungry planet: new tools in agrigenomics are key to food security

Blog - Genomic selection has been instrumental in dairy cattle breeding where it has essentially replaced progeny testing, enabling greater and faster improvements in terms of genetic gain

11 February 2019
Genomic selection: methods in crop and animal breeding

Blog - Genomic selection through genotyping is more accurate than conventional breeding methods and promises to revolutionise crop and animal breeding. The question is, which genotyping solution is right for the challenges you face?

18 February 2019
How tGBS-driven genomic selection can help you get to market faster

Blog - Plant and animal breeding programs often take generations to improve quality and yield but using a genotyping protocol with targeted sequencing can bring you genetic gains faster. Could your plant- or animal breeding program use a boost?

25 February 2019
The Full Authority Companion Diagnostic

Blog - Companion diagnostics are commonly qualitative yes/no tests that usually indicate whether or not a patient would have been included in the phase III trial that led to the approval of the companion diagnostic

06 March 2019
Novel enzyme from LGC, Biosearch Technologies is fast and specific, even at room temperature

News - New RapiDxFire Thermostable RT delivers a novel enzyme with superior specificity, speed, and room temperature stability

07 March 2019
Agrigenomics: how can NGS contribute to global food security?

Blog - NGS makes it much easier to apply genome selection, since breeders can more easily design and implement their breeding programmes to develop desirable traits such as drought tolerance, disease resistance, and higher yields

02 April 2019
Improving the lab function with automation

Blog - Recently, Ben Meadows shared his thoughts on the value of trade shows like SLAS and how our tools are solving customer problems.

15 April 2019
Genomic selection: can it accelerate livestock breeding?

Blog - In this article, we investigate how genomic selection can now provide us with genomic information of increasing complexity, which can be utilised to evaluate polygenic traits such as feed conversion ratio, and how breeders and ranchers can leverage the latest genomic tools to meet the growing global demands on protein consumption

28 May 2019
Edan Diagnostics acquires molecular diagnostic point of care platform from LGC

News - Edan Diagnostics, Inc., a wholly own subsidiary of Edan Instruments, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of bio-electronic devices and laboratory analyzers for medical diagnostics, and LGC, a global life science tools leader, announced today the sale of LGC’s ClariLight molecular diagnostics Point of Care (POC) platform to Edan.

28 October 2019