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DiaSorin to Acquire Luminex for $1.8B

DiaSorin said that the transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to its earnings per share and result in cost synergies of about $55 million within three years.

Novacyt in Dispute with UK Department of Health and Social Care Over Coronavirus Test Contract

Novacyt noted that it generated $98.5 million in the first quarter of 2021, about half of which came from sales to the DHSC.

CLIA Waiver in Hand, Binx Health Targeting Retailers, Urgent Care Centers With STI Tests

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Binx Health said that when it received FDA CLIA waiver, it already had a strategic partner for sales of its POC platform and chlamydia and gonorrhea tests.

Armed With $55M in New Funding, Nucleix to Further Invest in Early-Stage Lung Cancer Dx

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The Rehovot, Israel-based firm expects to soon receive marketing clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its methylation-based Bladder EpiCheck test.

Hologic to Acquire Finnish MDx Firm Mobidiag for Approximately $795M

Hologic intends to invest in assay development for Mobidiag's Novodiag PCR platform, which provides high-level multiplexing to detect infectious disease organisms.

Apr 06, 2021

MyHealthChecked to Offer At-Home Coronavirus Test Kit Through UK Pharmacy Chain Boots

Apr 06, 2021

NIH RADx Program Awards $29.3M to Increase SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity

Apr 02, 2021

Swiss Firm Marker Diagnostics Developing Saliva-Based Concussion Assay

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Apr 01, 2021

Altona Diagnostics Nabs CE Mark for HIV-1 Viral Load PCR Assay

Apr 01, 2021

BioReference Labs Inks Deal to Provide Rapid PCR, Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing for MLB

Mar 31, 2021

FDA Posts Info on Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations on Test Effectiveness

Mar 30, 2021

Binx Health Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Test CLIA Waived

Mar 30, 2021

As SARS-CoV-2 Variants Complicate Efforts to Tame Pandemic, Eurofins Test Helps to ID Mutations

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Mar 30, 2021

Todos Medical Acquires US Commercial Rights to Osang Healthcare Coronavirus Test

Mar 30, 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks, Olive Labs, CQuentia to Provide SARS-CoV-2 Pooled Testing in K-12 Schools

Mar 29, 2021

Amazon, NeuMoDx, Becton Dickinson Get FDA Emergency Use Authorizations for Coronavirus Tests

Mar 26, 2021

Maverick Health to Offer Visby Medical Rapid Coronavirus Test

Mar 26, 2021

Co-Diagnostics 2020 Revenues Spike on Coronavirus Testing

Mar 26, 2021

Dascena Labs, Ginkgo Bioworks Partner to Scale Pooled SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Schools

Mar 25, 2021

Euroimmun to Sell Oncgnostics Cervical Cancer Test in Certain Parts of Europe

Mar 25, 2021

Fluxergy Nabs CE-IVD Mark for SARS-CoV-2 POC PCR Test

Mar 24, 2021

DARPA Programs Leveraging Host-Response Testing, CRISPR for Future Pandemic Preparedness

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Mar 24, 2021

Nuclein Raises $14M to Support Development of Portable PCR Test System

Mar 24, 2021

Novacyt to Get CE Mark for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Test

Mar 24, 2021

QuantuMDx Raises $15.1M to Support Scale Up of Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostic System

The Scan

Hurdles to Genomic Surveillance

Nature News writes that viral genomic surveillance in the US faces systemic issues.

Boosts Requested

President Joe Biden is seeking an increase in federal spending, including higher budgets for the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Early Trial Responses

A small, early-stage trial of a combination therapy for brain cancer reports favorable responses in two patients, according to the Guardian.

PLOS Papers on Chronic Pain, Indigenous Populations in Mexico, SARS-CoV-2 Mutations

In PLOS this week: sex-stratified genome-wide association study of chronic pain, sequencing data from Indigenous Mexican groups, and more.

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Protecting Data Integrity and Quality Assurance in Times of Crisis: Technologies Essential to SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing - A GenomeWeb eCase Study Transcript

Combining NGS Technologies for Biomarker Identification and Confirmation Research

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The Complete Diagnostic COVID-19 Workflow Infographic

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Panel Discussion: Data Interpretation in Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2

Detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater can be a useful predictor of potential COVID-19 outbreaks. However, the interpretation of the surveillance data can be challenging.

Apr

29

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A New Generation of PCR: At-home Testing and Preparing for Emerging Strains of COVID-19

Join Dr. Heather Fehling, Chief Scientific Officer at Clinical Reference Labs (CRL), as she provides some insights regarding the future applications of PCR testing.

May

12

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SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia Predicts Clinical Deterioration and Extrapulmonary Complications from COVID-19

This webinar will discuss a recent study that characterized the relationships between SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia and disease severity, clinical deterioration, and extrapulmonary complications (EPCs).

May

18

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Tracking and Attacking COVID-19 through State-Wide Saliva Surveillance

This webinar will present the details of a COVID-19 saliva screening program that has been implemented at more than 90 different colleges, universities, private schools, and nursing homes across New York state.

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