Infectious Disease
News on research and diagnostic development for pathogenic diseases.
Becton Dickinson's HPV assay was FDA-approved for use with clinician-collected samples in 2018 and received approval for sample self-collection in May.
International Pathogen Surveillance Network Awards $2M in First Round of Grants
The network awarded funding to 10 projects aimed at increasing genomic surveillance capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
At the AMP annual meeting last week, a Johns Hopkins researcher detailed an Oxford Nanopore flu sequencing workflow optimized with novel New England Biolabs reagents.
Qiagen QiAcuityDx Digital PCR System Gets Regulatory Clearance in Australia, New Zealand
The system is currently available with research-use assays, and the firm expects to launch precision cancer tests in the future.
Pattern Bioscience Wins BARDA Contract Worth up to $40.9M
The contract's base award is $22.5 million, which Pattern said will support the late-stage development of its single-cell microbiology ID and AST system.