Lexington, MA – T2 Biosystems® announced today that it has closed a $23 million series D financing. The round was led by new investor Aisling Capital, LLC, which was joined by existing investors Flagship Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Physic Ventures, Partners Healthcare, Arcus Ventures, RA Capital, Camros Capital and WS Investments. In […]
CINCINNATI–Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Clostridium difficile rapid test, ImmunoCard C. difficile GDH. This assay detects the common antigen, Glutamate dehydrogenase, produced by toxigenic and non-toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile. Toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile are frequently associated with hospital and community acquired diarrhea and can lead […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Cepheid (CPHD) today announced the release of an updated Xpert® BCR-ABL Monitor test, now reporting results to the International Scale. The test is being released as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test, which runs on Cepheid’s GeneXpert® System, detects the […]
IRVINE, Calif. — CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that it has received its Clinical Laboratory Permit from the New York State Department of Health. The permit allows the Company to immediately begin receiving specimens for DNAarray™ Postnatal Developmental Testing. The DNAarray tests are based on aCGH technology, which provides physicians with a comprehensive genomic evaluation […]
Joint Sales, Research and DevelopmentBeijing, China / Wetzlar, Germany. China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED) (Nasdaq: CMED), a leading China-based advanced in-vitro diagnostic (“IVD”) company, and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems, a world leader in microscopes and scientific instruments, today announced that they have established a sales, research and development collaboration to co-develop and […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a manufacturer of universally compatible multiplex assays, announced today it was awarded a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute for microRNA profiling. MicroRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers that are proving to be important indicators for early diagnosis of cancer and other […]
GERMANTOWN, Maryland and HILDEN, Germany – QIAGEN today announced it has completed its second U.S. submission of the therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit for use as a companion diagnostic paired with Erbitux® (cetuximab), a leading drug for treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Erbitux is marketed in the United States by Bristol-Myers Squibb […]
FREDERICK, Md. – Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostics company that develops novel nucleic acid extraction and microarray-based testing systems designed to rapidly and economically analyze biological samples, today announced receipt of a $300K grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will enable Akonni to accelerate the research and development of a closed […]
VENLO, The Netherlands – QIAGEN N.V. (“QIAGEN”) welcomes the announcement made today by Cellestis Limited (“Cellestis”) that Cellestis shareholders have approved QIAGEN’s acquisition of all of the ordinary shares in Cellestis shares by way of a scheme of arrangement (“Scheme”). Details of the voting are set out in Cellestis’ announcement released earlier today. “We are […]
Baltimore, MD and Cambridge, UK – BD Diagnostics, a segment of global medical technology company BD, and Lab21, a global leader in personalized healthcare, announced today a collaboration to develop a state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic assay to detect the life-threatening Aspergillus fungus using the new fully automated BD MAX™ Molecular Testing System. “The potential to detect […]
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