Yourgene Health launches LightBench Discover for long-read sequencing labs

Ella Day | July 23, 2025 | News story | Business Services, Technical Consultancy Devices, Novacyt, PacBio, Yourgene Health, molecular diagnostics 

Yourgene Health, part of the Novacyt group, has announced the launch of LightBench Discover, an integrated benchtop instrument designed to streamline workflows in genomic research labs using long-read sequencing. The three-in-one platform offers large fragment analytics, DNA size selection and fluorometric quantification.

Developed in collaboration with PacBio, the LightBench Discover builds on the original LightBench, with enhanced capabilities to analyse DNA fragments up to 150 kilobases. It is optimised for research using PacBio’s Revio and Vega systems and is positioned to reduce the need for multiple instruments, software platforms and service contracts in high-throughput sequencing labs.

Prototype systems were tested in real-world settings with feedback from partners including The CoLab at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, US.

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“LightBench Discover’s three-in-one technology provides cost efficiencies, enhances quality control, simplifies workflows and delivers high-accuracy analytics – all designed around our customers’ needs,” said Lyn Rees, CEO of Novacyt. “It will strengthen our partnerships and our position in genomic research.”

Based in Manchester, UK, Yourgene Health is an international molecular diagnostics group. It develops and delivers innovative diagnostic and screening solutions, focusing on reproductive health, precision medicine and genomic technologies.

Ella Day

23/7/25

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