Quidel Receives Amended EUA for Rapid Antigen COVID-19 Diagnostic Assay Using Sofia 1 Instrument
Quidel Corporation (San Diego, CA, USA) has received an amended Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US FDA, allowing the company to run its Sofia SARS Antigen FIA on its first generation Sofia Fluorescent Immunoassay Analyzer (Sofia 1). More...10 Jun 2020
Siemens and BARDA Partner for Development of COVID-19 Automated Total Antibody Test
Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA, Washington, DC, USA) are partnering for an automated SARS-CoV-2 total antibody test being developed by the company. More...10 Jun 2020
Randox and SCIENION Expand Collaboration for Scaling-Up of Biochip and SARS CoV2 Test Manufacturing
Randox Laboratories (Crumlin, UK) has selected SCIENION AG (Berlin, Germany) as its technology provider and science partner for scaling-up biochip manufacturing in order to transform rapid diagnostic testing. More...10 Jun 2020
Omega Bio-tek Launches New Viral RNA Extraction Kit for COVID-19 Testing
Omega Bio-tek, Inc. (Norcross, GA, USA) has launched the Mag-Bind Viral RNA Xpress Kit for the rapid and reliable isolation of Viral RNA from nasopharyngeal (NP) swab specimens that are dry or in viral transport media (VTM). More...09 Jun 2020
First-Ever FDA-Authorized CRISPR-Based Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit to Be Launched
Sherlock Biosciences (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Integrated DNA Technologies {(IDT) Coralville, Iowa, USA} have entered into a strategic collaboration to enable large-scale manufacturing of the Sherlock CRISPR SARS-CoV-2 kit for the detection of the novel coronavirus. More...09 Jun 2020
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