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Helix Announces Partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to Support Back to School COVID-19 Testing Across the Western U.S.

April 08, 2021

As Variants Have Spread, Progress Against the Virus in U.S. Has Stalled

April 06, 2021

Experts predicted the UK variant would become dominant in the US by March. So, is it?

March 31, 2021

COVID-19 strain first spotted in U.K. spreading quickly, San Diego scientists report

March 31, 2021

More Contagious Variant Is Spreading Fast in U.S., Even as Overall Cases Level Off

March 06, 2021

Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.

February 07, 2021

More contagious coronavirus variant identified in UK is spreading rapidly throughout the US, study says

February 07, 2021

U.K. Variant Makes Up Growing Percentage of Covid-19 Cases in Florida

February 06, 2021

Helix Launches a COVID-19 Viral Surveillance Dashboard to Track Emergence and Prevalence of New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

January 21, 2021

Helix® Laboratory Platform Granted the First and Only FDA Authorization for a Whole Exome Sequencing Platform

January 11, 2021

Illumina and Helix Collaborate to Assess Prevalence of New SARS-CoV-2 UK Variant (B.1.1.7) in the US and Develop National Surveillance Infrastructure

January 05, 2021

Helix Coronavirus Test FDA EUA Reissued to Include Specimen Self-Collection

October 26, 2020

Helix Receives Expanded Emergency Use Authorization for On-site Unsupervised Self-Collection and Asymptomatic Screening with the Helix® COVID-19 Test

October 26, 2020

U.S. Surgeon General Tours Key Sites in City and County of San Diego’s COVID-19 Response

September 16, 2020

Helix Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for the HelixⓇ COVID-19 NGS Test, One of the First Sequencing-Based COVID-19 Tests

August 10, 2020

Helix Selected by the NIH to Become One of the Nation's COVID-19 "Mega-Labs" and Scale Daily Capacity to 100,000 Tests

July 31, 2020

Genomics startup Helix receives $33 million in NIH funding to scale COVID-19 testing

July 31, 2020

NIH delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. demand

July 31, 2020

NIH Investing $248.7 Million in Seven Companies to Scale Up COVID-19 Testing

July 31, 2020

Helix Selected by the NIH to Become One of the Nation's COVID-19 "Mega-Labs" and Scale Daily Capacity to 100,000 Tests

July 31, 2020