Sequanta, Mission Bio Enter Strategic Pact

Sequanta Technologies Co. and Mission Bio have entered into a strategic partnership, providing high-quality single-cell sequence services using Mission Bio's products to customers in mainland China.

Mission Bio provides researchers with the tools needed to improve how we measure and predict our resistance and response to cancer therapies. Mission Bio's multi-omics approach aims to improve time-to-market for new therapeutics, including innovative cell and gene therapies. The company's Tapestri Platform gives researchers the power to interrogate every molecule in a cell together, providing a comprehensive understanding of activity from a single sample. Tapestri is the only commercialized multi-omics platform capable of analyzing DNA and protein simultaneously, from the same sample at single-cell resolution.

Through the collaboration, customers in China will have access to run Mission Bio fee-for-service projects in a similar way as in other parts of the world. It also means that Sequanta will further improve its capability for high-throughput single-cell multi-omics research based on genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

"Expanding the reach of our Tapestri platform will provide customers in more markets with the tools to develop treatments and potential cures for cancers and other diseases," said Yan Zhang, CEO of Mission Bio. "We are excited to work with Sequanta, especially given their synergies with academic cancer centers, and their expertise in cell and gene therapy services. Through our partnership with Sequanta, we are introducing key multi-omics methods to China that can power the next wave of critical discoveries."

Yuan Li, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer of Sequanta said, "We are pleased to become the important partner of Mission Bio on the Chinese market to promote Mission Bio's single-cell genomics and proteomics technologies for detection of actionable biomarkers. With that, Sequanta enters into a new era of providing single-cell multi-omics services to its customers, combining its bulk genomics capability with Mission Bio single-cell technology, to serve customers with comprehensive solutions for precision medicine."