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Kenya Grants EUA for the INDICAID(TM) COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test

The INDICAID™ COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test is a lateral flow immunoassay designed for qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigens. Unlik...

August 30, 2021 | News

BD Receives EUA for First At-Home COVID-19 Test to Use Smartphone to Interpret

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...

August 27, 2021 | News

Mylab and Hemex health announce technology partnership for point of care diagnostics

Mylab Discovery Solutions, India’s leading biotechnology company has joined forces with the US-based Hemex Health, a medical diagnostic device c...

August 10, 2021 | News

Thermo Fisher Scientific Updates Customizable TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to Detect Delta and Lambda Variants

The panel enables laboratories to track known mutations by selecting from a menu of over 50 assays designed to screen for different variants. The TaqMan SA...

August 10, 2021 | News

BD and CerTest Biotec Announce CE Mark for Molecular Test to Detect, Identify Certain SARS-CoV-2 Variants

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, and CerTest Biotec, today announced the CE mark for a molecular test...

August 06, 2021 | News

Data Collection Geared Toward Translational Medicine

This practice is lab- and data-driven, aspiring to make a bench-to-bedside approach that’ll efficiently develop therapeutic strategies. It identifies...

July 19, 2021 | Opinion

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Ortho's new VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Quantitative Test targets the S1 spike protein and is calibrated to the WHO International Standard fo...

July 12, 2021 | News

QuantuMDx launches Q-POC™ - rapid PCR point of care diagnostic system

Roll out at ECCMID 2021 with Q-POC™ SARS-CoV-2 assay 96.9% sensitivity, 98.3% specificity Sample to result - approximately 30 minutes CE-IV...

July 09, 2021 | News

FBI Approves Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Rapid DNA Solution

What if you were able to identify a suspect in an unsolved case using DNA within minutes—instead of weeks, months or years—while an arrestee wa...

July 09, 2021 | News

Eurofins Viracor to Invest in SARS-CoV-2 inSIGHT™ T Cell Immunity Testing

Utilizing flow cytometry and intracellular cytokine staining, SARS-CoV-2 inSIGHT™ testing could be an important tool for evaluating immunological mem...

July 09, 2021 | News

BioGX Receives FDA EUA Approvals

BioGX, a global provider of molecular diagnostic solutions, announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration has issued Emergency Use Authoriz...

July 05, 2021 | News

Thermo Fisher Launches Collection Kit to Streamline Saliva Testing

As businesses, universities and schools reopen, SARS-CoV-2 virus surveillance is critical to the management of outbreaks and emerging new strains, includin...

June 30, 2021 | News

Waters to Help Accelerate Biologics Production Through Research Collaboration With SBTI

Waters expands collaboration with Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR into new areas meant to accelerate bioprocessing and bioinformatics research...

June 28, 2021 | News

Duke-NUS and GenScript notice of allowance for U.S. patent application for SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test

Developed by Professor Linfa Wang and his team from Duke-NUS, the sVNT neutralization antibody detection technology is exclusively licensed to Ge...

June 25, 2021 | News

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