Infectious Disease Portable Test Articles & Analysis
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Stilla Technologies, the multiplex digital PCR company, and Promega Corporation today announced a co-marketing agreement that combines sample preparation with the latest Maxwell® systems and digital PCR on the six-color naica® system. With this partnership, the companies will offer an optimized workflow for a wide range of applications including liquid biopsy, sentinel pathogen testing, ...
XPhyto Therapeutics Corp. (CSE:XPHY / OTC:XPHYF / FSE:4XT) (“XPhyto” or the “Company”) is pleased to report a significant potential market opportunity for its oral dissolvable (“ODF”) biosensor screening tests for oral inflammation. Certain buprenorphine medicines prescribed to treat opioid use disorder (“OUD”) and pain have been recently associated ...
Babson Diagnostics, a science-first health care technology company, today announced that it continues to grow its management team with the addition of four key leaders. The new team members bring skill sets and experience that will support the commercial launch of its blood testing ecosystem, which reimagines blood testing from collection to sample preparation to analysis, to better meet the ...
Marking “World Sepsis Day”, The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) announces the spin-off of a new company, Sepset Biosciences Inc. The company is developing a novel rapid diagnostic test that will enable healthcare professionals to provide earlier and more targeted treatment of sepsis – a global healthcare problem that is more common than heart attack and claims ...
Abingdon Health plc (AIM: ABDX), a leading international developer and manufacturer of high quality and effective rapid tests, announces the launch of its new B2C e-commerce website, abingdonsimplytest.com. ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Color Health, a health technology company committed to advancing public health, have launched a significant expansion of the K-12 ReadyCheckGo COVID-19 testing solution in Texas. The program, formed in agreement with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), is now available to all school districts in the state. ...
Enesi Pharma (“Enesi”), an innovative biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccination products targeting infectious diseases and emergent threat pathogens, enabled by its ImplaVax® technologies, has entered into an agreement with the US National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to test a novel ...
ASHI 2021 -- At the annual meeting for the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) this week, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced two new additions to its transplant diagnostics portfolio. These new products will enable transplant laboratories to better characterize samples and bring speed and confidence to the transplant laboratory. More than 100,000 adults are now on a ...
Alveo Technologies, Inc. (Alveo) announced today that it has been named a winner of the $6M XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing Competition for its be.well COVID-19 Test. The be.well™ platform provides individuals access to molecular testing and cloud-based analytics for rapid diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. The $6 million XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing Competition challenged any ...
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today reports that its BioFlash Biological Identifier is capable of detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the air following tests conducted by the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). The tests were performed using live SARS-CoV-2 virus in a Biosafety Level 3 containment area ...
Alveo Technologies, today announced it has been awarded a grant to improve upon the performance and usability of its testing platform, and if successful, to advance the development and scale manufacturing of the company’s be.well™ COVID-19 test from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As the first of its kind platform, be.well™ is as accurate as a PCR test with all the ...
Kephera Diagnostics announced today that it has been awarded a two-year, $1,989,300 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to complete the development and launch of a new test for Zika virus infection. Kephera’s test is aimed at detecting Zika ...
The first SARS-CoV-2 sequence was released on January 10, just 40 days after the incidence of pneumonia started to rise in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization released its first diagnostic testing guidelines just one week later, on January 17. By any measure, the rapid sequencing and subsequent testing guidelines is a towering human achievement. Unfortunately, we ...
Most infections present as a syndrome, with signs and symptoms that are common to many pathogens. Traditional diagnostic methods often rely on guesswork—ordering a targeted test for the most probable cause of illness, waiting hours or even days for results, and repeating the process until a pathogen is positively identified. The syndromic approach, however, empowers healthcare ...
QIAGEN today announced a key allocation from the company"s "one million test" donation program to increase access to HPV screening for cervical cancer prevention among women in low-resource regions of the world. Approximately 26,000 human papillomavirus (HPV) tests will go to the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital for cervical cancer screening, the company said at the Women Deliver global ...