Helix, a population-genomics company in the Bay Area, is deep in the viral variant tracking game. With the CDC, Helix identified the spread of variant Alpha — now the most dominant strain in the US.

Marc Laurent gives a tour of a sprawling set of labs that Helix just opened in San Diego’s Sorrento Valley. There’s a row of white sample testing machines that takes Laurent back to the COVID-19 ...

While many makers of COVID-19 diagnostics have reeled in their once-lofty projections for test sales this year—thanks to the widespread and growing availability of the coronavirus vaccines—Helix, for ...

As millions of K-12 students return to in-person learning, school districts across the country have looked to pooled testing as a cost-effective means of monitoring the deadly virus. The method – ...

SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Helix, the leading population genomics company, today announced a partnership with San Diego County to make COVID-19 testing accessible across the County to ...

Helix, a direct-to-consumer genomics company, launched the first online marketplace to offer customers personalized products based on genetic testing. The Helix marketplace comprises more than 20 ...

Personal genomics startup Helix, which is developing a digital hub for all things related to DNA testing ranging from direct-to-consumer to doctor-ordered, has announced several partnerships: the ...

Helix was founded in 2015 with help from Illumina, which makes the majority of DNA-sequencing machines in the US, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that the company rolled out its marketplace of ...