Yahoo News reports millions of dollars are being transferred from NIH, CDC, and other programs to pay for the housing of detained undocumented immigrant children.
Diassess said that the funds will accelerate development of a flu test for use in the clinic and sustain development of another flu test for use in the home.
The firm anticipates that the award will accelerate the development of its over-the-counter and professional-use influenza and multiplex respiratory pathogen tests.
The Arizona Republic reports that some young migrant children are being reunited with parents who passed both a criminal background check and a DNA test.
The government says it is using DNA testing as part of efforts to reunite families by court-ordered deadlines, but it will not reveal which lab is performing testing.
HHS may already be administering DNA testing to migrant families, but the agency has provided little information about how testing is being implemented.
In Cell this week: investigation of metastatic tumor evolution, more than 16,000 genetic variants introduced into the budding yeast model organism, and more.
