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Helicos BioSciences Corp. (NASDAQ:HLCS)- Today’s First Hour Top Mover

Helicos BioSciences Corp. (NASDAQ:HLCS)- Today’s First Hour Top Mover

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Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the placement of a Helicos™ Genetic Analysis System at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) with Drs. Tom Hudson and John McPherson.

“We are very excited to be working with such a distinguished institution on the application of our technology to the study of cancer genomics” stated Ron Lowy, Helicos Chief Executive Officer.

The Helicos Genetic Analysis System is the world’s first and only commercially available, single molecule sequencing technology, and enables scientists to conduct revolutionary studies in the fields of genome biology, cancer research, common diseases, and microbiology without DNA ligation or amplification. Genetic analysis with Helicos’s technology eliminates the biases, complexity and errors introduced by DNA amplification, requires minute amounts of starting material, and provides the most direct and accurate view of biological samples.

The stock is currently trading at $1.28 moved up about 27% on over 10.23 million shares. In the last 52-week, the stock has been trading within a range of $0.21-$4.55.

About

Helicos BioSciences Corporation (Helicos) is a life sciences company focused on genetic analysis technologies for the research, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics markets. Helicos has developed a technology, called the True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS) technology, to facilitate the rapid analysis of large quantities of genetic material by directly sequencing single molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or single DNA copies of ribonucleic acid (RNA).

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