Bio-Rad Laboratories has developed an assay to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, using its droplet digital PCR systems, and similar ddPCR tests have been shown in recent preliminary studies to reduce false negative results.

Myriad estimates there are more than 78,000 cases of prostate cancer and 40,000 cases of pancreatic cancer per year in Japan.

Rendu Biotechnology said on Monday that it has received emergency approval from China's National Medical Products Administration for a SARS-Cov-2 nucleic acid detection kit.

Thermo Fisher Scientific said on Monday that it has priced an offering of €1.2 billion ($1.33 billion) worth of euro-denominated senior notes.

Both CerTest Biotec and Becton Dickinson and Company have received a CE mark for the VIASURE SARS-CoV-2 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Detection Kit adapted for the BD Max System.

The Menlo Park, CA-based company has raised $15 million in a follow-on to its series A round and said it will use the proceeds to support the commercial expansion of its prenatal screening test and help with R&D efforts into a liquid biopsy product.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is the latest company to be granted Emergency Use Authorization for a diagnostic to detect the coronavirus (COVID-19).

In addition to increasing production of its collection devices, BD worked with BioGX Inc. to request an FDA Emergency Use Authorization for a new COVID-19 diagnostic.

Irvine, CA-based Oncocyte inherited the DetermaIO test when it acquired Insight Genetics earlier this year. The company said it has completed Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) validation for the test.

FDA issued a letter to industry that includes steps the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has taken to prioritize work that advances the nation¡¯s response during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency.

A new UK-based research consortium is betting that sequencing the virus that causes COVID-19 can provide policymakers with a clearer picture of the spread of the epidemic across the country as diagnostic testing remains limited.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted Emergency Use Authorization to Luminex for the firm's NxTag CoV Extended Panel to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus nucleic acids in nasopharyngeal swab specimens.

FDA announced that the agency will temporarily postpone all domestic routine surveillance facility inspections, those conducted every few years based on a risk analysis.