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Vela Diagnostics Automated Coronavirus Test Gets CE-IVD Mark

Vela Diagnostics said that the RT-PCR-based test has also received provisional authorization from the Health Sciences Authority in Singapore.

Paragon Genomics Betting Updated SARS-CoV-2 NGS Kit Will Enable High-Throughput Research, Testing

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Users will be able to sequence over 20,000 samples simultaneously with the updated panel, which the firm expects to offer sometime in the third quarter for research use only.

FDA Grants EUA for UCSF, Broad Institute, BioSewoom Coronavirus Tests

UCSF's test, developed with Mammoth Biosciences, uses CRISPR technology, while the tests from the Broad Institute and BioSewoom are PCR-based.

Todos Medical Inks Expanded Deal for 3D Medicines PCR Test Kits in US

Todos said that it has also expanded its distribution rights to 3D Medicines' SARS-CoV-2 testing products in Asia, North America, and other regions.

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic May Promote Progress in Paper MDx

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A handful of researchers and companies are hoping to finally bring the paper-based molecular diagnostic space to fruition.

Jul 09, 2020

Qiagen Reports Preliminary Q2 Revenue Growth of 18 to 19 Percent

Jul 09, 2020

FDA Grants EUAs for Enzo Life Sciences, Access Bio, Gene By Gene Coronavirus Tests

Jul 09, 2020

BioMérieux Reports 62 Percent BioFire FilmArray Sales Growth in Preliminary Q2 Release

Jul 08, 2020

Laboratorio Clinico Toledo, Assure Tech Coronavirus Tests Get Emergency Use Authorizations

Jul 07, 2020

FDA Issues New Guidance for SARS-CoV-2 Pooled Sample Testing

Jul 07, 2020

Advanced Biological Laboratories Gets CE Mark for SARS-CoV-2 qPCR Assay

Jul 07, 2020

DiaSorin Molecular Gets CE Mark for Flu, RSV Assay

Jul 07, 2020

Quidel Preliminary Q2 Revenues Jump More Than 86 Percent

Jul 07, 2020

FDA Letter Warns About False-Positive Results From Becton Dickinson SARS-CoV-2 Test

Jul 07, 2020

Asuragen Receives CE Mark for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Assay

Jul 03, 2020

CDC Combined COVID-19/Influenza Test Gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Jul 02, 2020

Centogene Gets Emergency Use Authorization for PCR-Based Coronavirus Test

Jul 01, 2020

Yale, NBA Validating RNA Extraction-Free Saliva Test for Coronavirus

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Jul 01, 2020

T2 Biosystems Preliminary Q2 Revenues Up About 40 Percent; Firm Launches COVID-19 Test

Jul 01, 2020

FDA Grants EUAs for PCR Coronavirus Tests, Nasal Swab Self-Collection Kit

Jun 30, 2020

Fluxergy, Mass General Brigham Partner to Evaluate Rapid COVID-19 Molecular Testing System

Jun 30, 2020

Hologic Upgraded to Outperform by Cowen on Expected Coronavirus Test Demand

Jun 30, 2020

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for LifeHope Labs Coronavirus Test

Jun 29, 2020

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Inform Diagnostics Coronavirus Test

Jun 26, 2020

Iowa Startup FBB Biomed Pursues RNA Blood Test to Predict COVID-19 Disease Severity

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Cost of Meeting Cancellations

Nature News reports on how meeting cancellations and related costs are affecting scientific societies.

Genetic Nondiscrimination Act Upheld

In a new ruling, Canada's Supreme Court upheld the country's genetic non-discrimination law, the Canadian Press reports.

Enhancement Avoidance

COVID-19 vaccine developers aim to avoid a complication that has affected efforts to develop vaccines for other diseases, the Wall Street Journal reports.

PLOS Papers on Shigella Insertion Sequences, Antigens and Plasmodium vivax Diversity, More

In PLOS this week: analysis of insertions throughout Shigella genomes, antigen production in malaria parasites, and more.

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