What a year it's been. If 2024 was our "coming out party," then 2025 was the year n6 crashed the genomics scene, made friends everywhere, and proved that a thermocycler can actually be exciting. (Shucks, we knew it was exciting all along.)

Let's take a moment to celebrate the wins—and more importantly, to thank YOU, our growing iconic community, for trusting your precious samples and workflows to be more than good enough.

🏆 Starting the year with a bang

We kicked off 2025 by winning the "Best New Product" Award at SLAS 2025 in San Diego. To say we were honored is an understatement—being recognized by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening validated what we've believed all along: iconPCR™ with AutoNorm™ technology isn't just better, it's revolutionary.​

And apparently, word spread fast. At AGBT in February, our little thermocycler became the "talk of the conference." A PCR instrument stealing the show? We love to see it.​

🌍 Going global in a big way

This was the year n6 truly went worldwide. We launched 12 distribution partnerships across 30+ countries, bringing iconPCR to scientists from Spain to Singapore, Italy to India, and everywhere in between.​

Our incredible distribution partners now include:

  • Bonsai Lab (Spain, Portugal)
  • Euroclone (Italy)
  • GeneTiCA Group (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovenia)
  • Morpho Biotech (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
  • Primetech Corporation (Japan)
  • Rhenium (Israel)
  • Spinco (India)
  • Techtum Lab AB (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
  • TrendBio (Australia, New Zealand)
  • Velgen Technik (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia)
  • Witech AG (Switzerland)​
  • LNCBio (South Korea)

To support this expansion, we welcomed a Channel Partner Manager to the team—because when you're in 15+ countries and counting, you need someone to keep track of all those time zones!​

🎓 Sharing knowledge (because science is better together)

We doubled down on education this year with three major webinars alongside some of the biggest names in genomics:

🤝 Technology partnerships that matter

We're proud to have earned our stripes with industry leaders this year:

  • PacBio Compatible certified with a co-marketed application note demonstrating superior microbial profiling
  • Zymo Research integrated iconPCR into their standardized ZymoBIOMICS® full-length 16S library prep workflow
  • Plus collaborations with NEB, Revvity, Twist, Roche, Watchmaker, IDT, Element, Ultima, 10x, Illumina, Covaris, Hamilton, and Beckman​
  • And genomic core facility placements at UCSF, Penn State, Rush University, and more (see what core directors are saying)

If your NGS workflow includes amplification, we're there to optimize it — from metagenomics to single-cell RNA-seq, FFPE rescue to assay development and beyond.​

🎪 Conference circuit champions

We showed up, set up, and nerded out at more conferences than we can count:

  • AGBT (February) – The one where we stole the show (See Poster)
  • SLAS EU (May) – Hamburg, here we come!
  • EACR (June) – Cancer research, meet AutoNorm
  • ABRF + 5 Regional ABRFs – Core facility love, coast to coast
  • CGC (August) – Cancer Genomics Consortium in Houston (See Poster)
  • ASHG (October) – Two posters AND a CoLab with Eric Chow from UCSF
  • NextGen Omics (November) – London calling!
  • 6 scientific posters presented throughout the year​

🔮 By the numbers (the fun ones)

  • 15+ countries now have iconPCR capability
  • Millions of samples AutoNormalized
  • Countless FFPE and cfDNA samples rescued from dropout doom
  • Thousands of chimeras tamed (they never saw it coming)
  • 50% reduction in headaches – including workflow complications, hand cramps from pipetting, and the existential dread of failed runs​

💙 Thank you, iconic community

None of this happens without you—the scientists, core facility managers, lab techs, and genomics enthusiasts who took a chance on a smarter thermocycler. You trusted us with your workflows, your precious samples, and your sequencing dreams.

We don't take that lightly.

Here's to a 2026 filled with even more breakthroughs, balanced pools, and zero over-amplification. We're just getting started. 🚀

Stay iconic,
The n6 Team