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Quidel Expects SARS-CoV-2 Testing Demand to Continue 'Through 2022, and Beyond'

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Quidel expects to launch at least four new products over the next year and commented on its overall COVID-19 strategy, as well as R&D plans, M&A possibilities, and other updates.

Credo Diagnostics Combo Influenza, COVID-19 Test Receives CE-IVD Mark

The point-of-care test runs on the VitaPCR instrument and delivers results in 20 minutes, and has been implemented at Charles De Gaulle airport.

PerkinElmer SARS-CoV-2 Test Gets Reissued Emergency Use Authorization for Pooled Sampling

The reissued EUA is for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in human oropharyngeal swab, nasopharyngeal swab, and anterior nasal swab specimens.

Opko Health Q3 Revenues Up 87 Percent

The firm's subsidiary BioReference Laboratories performed 3.5 million COVID-19 PCR tests and 300,000 serology tests during the quarter.

Bio-Rad Q3 Revenues Jump 15 Percent

Bio-Rad's year-over-year Q3 revenue increase was driven primary by sales of PCR and Droplet Digital PCR products due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 29, 2020

Quidel Q3 Revenues Nearly Triple, Beat Analyst Expectations

Oct 29, 2020

GenMark Diagnostics Expanding Manufacturing to Meet Pent Up Demand for SARS-CoV-2, Respiratory Panel

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Oct 29, 2020

Biocartis, Exact Sciences Terminate Oncotype DX Agreement

Oct 28, 2020

GenMark Q3 Revenues More Than Double on Respiratory Panel Sales

Oct 28, 2020

Agena Bioscience Gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization for MassArray Coronavirus Test

Oct 28, 2020

Qiagen Reports 26 Percent Q3 Revenue Growth; Ups Full-Year Guidance

Oct 27, 2020

FDA Reissues EUA for Broad Institute Coronavirus Test, Authorizes Immunoassay From Celltrion

Oct 26, 2020

Moving From Reagents Supplier to Test Developer, Meridian Bio Expands Role During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Oct 26, 2020

PerkinElmer Multianalyte SARS-CoV-2, Flu Test Gets CE Mark

Oct 26, 2020

Helix Coronavirus Test FDA EUA Reissued to Include Specimen Self-Collection

Oct 23, 2020

FDA Grants EUAs for Wren Labs, P23 Coronavirus Tests, Binx Health At-Home Sample Collection Kit

Oct 22, 2020

Summit Biolabs Commercializing Tests for Head and Neck Cancer Recurrence, COVID-19

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Oct 22, 2020

BioMérieux Q3 Revenues Increase 21 Percent

Oct 21, 2020

Thermo Fisher Scientific Continues to See Strong Demand for Pandemic-Related Products and Services

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Oct 21, 2020

BD, CerTest Biotec Get CE-IVD Mark for Combination COVID-19, Influenza, RSV Test on BD Max

Oct 21, 2020

Thermo Fisher Scientific Q3 Revenues Soar 36 Percent

Oct 19, 2020

PathogenDx Partners With Prevenio on Food Safety System

Oct 19, 2020

Fluidigm Shares Rise on Selection of Saliva-Based COVID-19 Assay for Federal Surge Testing

Oct 19, 2020

FDA Reissues Emergency Use Authorization for Thermo Fisher Scientific COVID-19 Combo Kit

The Scan

Funds Sought for Vaccine Distribution

The Washington Post reports that US states and territories are seeking more funding for the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

Virus Variant From Spain Now Across UK

The strain now accounts for about 80 percent of cases in Wales and Scotland, and about half of cases in England, the Guardian reports.

Unexpected Loss

A new study suggests that using CRISPR to edit human embryonic DNA can lead to the loss of whole chromosomes, as the Associated Press reports.

Science Papers on Long Human-Canine Relationship, Population History of Early East Asians, More

In Science this week: ancient dog genomes highlight long ties with humans, genomic analysis of 40,000-year-old early East Asian individual, and more.

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Increased DNA Yield and Reduced PCR Duplicates Using the Ionic System

Isotachophoresis Improves Nucleic Acid Extraction and Purification from FFPE Samples

A Real-Time-Assay for the fast and gel-free detection of Rhesus Weak D Type 1/1.1 to Type 3

Fast Real-Time PCR Detection of HLA-B*27 Directly from Blood Using a Specialized Stabilizing Reagent

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Beyond Traditional Biopsy for Esophageal Cancer: Novel Sampling Methods to Improve Patient Care

This webinar will provide an overview of novel proximal and distal sampling methods that have promise to improve patient outcomes from esophageal cancer.

Nov

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IVDR in Light of the COVID Pandemic: The Near Future of In Vitro Diagnostic Testing

The COVID-19 pandemic created a paradigm shift in modern healthcare, where regulations, protocols, and mindsets had to be reworked in just a matter of months to keep up with the pace of the virus.

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Leveraging Genomics to Accelerate Genetic Improvement in Aquaculture

Selective breeding represents an efficient approach to increase production of aquaculture species by means of improving traits, such as rapid growth, product quality, and disease resistance.

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Spatial Expression Analyses Elucidates Mechanisms of circRNAs in Cancer

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have recently gained substantial attention in the cancer research field where most, including the putative oncogene ciRS-7 (CDR1as), have been proposed to function as competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) by “sponging” specific microRNAs.

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