BLACKSBURG, Va., April 13 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University have begun a unique and historic partnership aimed to benefit both institutions as well as residents of Virginia.

To elevate research and critical discoveries, the two universities have collaborated to facilitate access to a commercial level, high-throughput sequencing system, the Illumina NovaSeq X Plus System.

Housed on the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) campus, it brings commercial-grade sequencing power in-house, ensuring researchers have the same tools used by top genomic centers, allowing them to make faster, more advanced discoveries, while maximizing taxpay...