The Australian firm provided an update on its in vitro diagnostics business, noting that it has also rebranded its core technologies and continues to license them.
Focus Diagnostics' Simplexa Direct test for herpes simplex viruses 1 & 2 was its first molecular test for the viruses and seventh overall to get FDA clearance.
The assays use specimens from symptomatic patients for the qualitative detection and differentiation of HSV-1 and HSV-2 with results generated within one hour.
In Genome Biology this week: difference in methylation in neurons from Parkinson's disease patients, differential expression analysis by barcoded sequencing approach, and more.
