Veterinary Diagnostics
News on veterinary diagnostics and testing.
Washington State University Awarded $1.5M for Zoonotic Respiratory Disease Tracking
The funding will support studies by WSU's Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory of viral transmission among ruminant animals.
Alveo Technologies, Fraunhofer IZI to Codevelop Animal Health MDx Tests
The partners plan to develop veterinary molecular diagnostic assays on Alveo's be.well loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based test system.
The company recently signed on Heska for selling its Nu.Q Vet Cancer Screening Test at the point of care, and Sage Healthcare as a distributor in Singapore.
In a recent study, company researchers and their collaborators found that tumors in dogs and humans share mutational hotspots in a number of cancer-related genes.
PetDx Raises $62M in Series B Round
The company plans to use the new funding in part to accelerate the rollout of its flagship OncoK9 liquid biopsy assay for detecting cancer in dogs.