According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, the number of people diagnosed with dementia is expected to almost triple by 2050.

Asep Medical Holdings Inc. ("Asep" or the "Company") (CSE: ASEP) (OTCQB: SEPSF) (FSE: JJ8) is very pleased to announce that, through its subsidiary Sepset Biosciences Inc. ("Sepset"), it has signed a definitive joint venture agreement (the "JV Agreement") with leading Chinese medical diagnostic company, Sansure Biotech Inc. ("Sansure"), through its subsidiary, Hunan Xiang Jiang Sansure Biotech Fund, L.P. (the "Sansure Fund"). Sansure Fund is an investment fund formed by Sansure, Changsha Sanway Spring Venture Capital CO., Ltd. ("Sanway Spring") and certain other investors. The JV Agreement was signed on October 27, 2023.

Cell Signaling Technology (CST), a life science biotechnology company and leading provider of antibodies, kits, and services, and Amoy Diagnostics Co., Ltd. (AmoyDx), a China-based innovative molecular diagnostics company in the field of precision oncology, announced today the expansion of their ongoing partnership for companion diagnostic (CDx) development in China.

U.K. medical regulators have approved a “world-first” gene therapy that aims to cure two blood disorders: sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia. They are the first regulatory body to approve the treatment.

Medtronic has reported $7.98bn in global revenue for the second quarter (Q2) of the fiscal year 2024 (FY2024), an increase of 5.3% against $7.58bn.

Chinese molecular diagnostic firm Dinfectome said on Monday that its DIFSeq-200 sequencer has obtained approval from the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).

Foundation Medicine Inc. today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for FoundationOne®CDx to be used as a companion diagnostic for AstraZeneca’s Truqap™ (capivasertib) in combination with Faslodex® (fulvestrant) which has been contemporaneously approved for the treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer with one or more PIK3CA/AKT1/PTEN-alterations following progression on at least one endocrine-based regimen in the metastatic setting or recurrence on or within 12 months of completing adjuvant therapy.

China Association of In Vitro Diagnostics (CAIVD) and In Vitro Diagnostics Society of China Association for Medical Devices Industry jointly compiled this report.

Siemens Healthineers said Monday that it has secured a three-year, $5.5 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop a next-generation sequencing-based test to guide antimicrobial treatments in sepsis patients.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today reported revenue of $1.69 billion for the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31, 2023, a decline of 8.7% reported and 9.7% core(1) compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Transplant diagnostic firm Verici DX and Thermo Fisher Scientific have signed an exclusive global licensing and commercialization agreement to develop a pre-transplant prognostic test for early kidney rejection risk assessment.

The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it has granted Roche Emergency Use Authorization for a new version of its multiplex molecular assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A/B.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LetsGetChecked’s at-home testing system for chlamydia and gonorrhoea.

Roche announced on Thursday it received CE marking for two serology tests for hepatitis E.