The world is in a "race against time" with the Omicron coronavirus variant, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, warning during a visit to Latvia that scientists and manufacturers will need weeks to fully understand the new variant.

In order to promote the expansion of high-quality medical resources and balanced regional layout, local governments give full financial support on construction of public hospitals.

One of the first jobs the US Food and Drug Administration’s new inspections council will take on is developing policy around the agency’s use of Remote Regulatory Assessments.

Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell — a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn’t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises because mitochondria aren’t firing properly, for example.

South Korean diagnostics firm NGeneBio said on Tuesday that it has received CE-IVD marking for its next-generation sequencing-based human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing assay.

South Korean diagnostics firm NGeneBio said on Tuesday that it has received CE-IVD marking for its next-generation sequencing-based human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing assay.

Pascal Soriot, the executive director and chief executive officer of AstraZeneca, recently featured on the BBC Radio 4's The Today Program. He was pressed to respond to the notion of mRNA vaccines – such as the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – becoming the "future" of vaccinology.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences announced on Monday that it has inked an application development agreement with Integrated DNA Technologies for its forthcoming Biomek NGenius next-generation library preparation system.

Recently, the team led by Prof. HUANG Qing at the Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) developed a novel biosensor based on aptamer-combined surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to achieve the inflammatory microRNA-122detection in cell-secreted exosomes.

On November 20, Hospital Management Institute, Fudan University released the Fudan’s 2020 China Hospital Ranking and the 2020 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking in Shanghai.

Wuhan EasyDiagnosis Biomedicine Co., Ltd. and Hzymes Biotechnology Co.,Ltd. have established Shanghai R&D Center.

COVID-19 saliva testing kits that include a novel preservative can also be used to measure microscopic organisms in the mouth, a Rutgers study found. This enables study of the relationship between mouth and lung microbes and the SARS-CoV-2 virus that may allow for the development of new treatments.

Agilent Technologies reported after the close of the market on Monday that its fiscal fourth quarter revenues increased 12 percent year over year.

Now that the Human Genome Project has officially wrapped, an international team of researchers will map the entire collection of proteins in the human body.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it has issued two final orders reclassifying certain hepatitis C diagnostic tests from Class III to Class II. Additionally, it reclassified blood lancet devices from Class I to Class II and Class III.