Rapid Micro Methods News

PositiveID Corporation's M-BAND System Featured in Article on $5.7 Billion BioWatch Opportunity

PositiveID Corporation, an emerging growth company and developer of sophisticated airborne bio-thre…

byRapidMicro •June 27, 2012

Seegene Introduces the First Real Time Multiplex Quantification Test for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Seegene Inc., a leading developer of multiplex molecular diagnostic technologies and tests, today a…

byRapidMicro •June 27, 2012

Stratos and nanoMR Partner to Develop Technology for Faster, Cost-Effective Pathogen Detection

Stratos Product Development today announced its partnership with nanoMR to develop instrumentation …

byRapidMicro •June 27, 2012

Nanosphere Receives FDA Authorization to Market Its Gram-Positive Blood Culture Test

Nanosphere, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of advanced molecular diagnosti…

byRapidMicro •June 27, 2012

Micro Imaging Technology to Receive the First Commercial Production Units of Its MIT 1000

Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. announced that the first commercial units of its Rapid Microbial Ide…

byRapidMicro •June 25, 2012

NicOx Signs Worldwide Licensing Agreement With Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. For Ophthalmic Diagnostics

Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc. (RPS®) and NicOx S.A. announce that they have entered into a licensi…

byRapidMicro •June 25, 2012

Arizona State University Secures Defense Contract

Arizona State University has been awarded a four-year contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Ag…

byRapidMicro •June 20, 2012

InstantLabs' Salmonella Species Food Safety Test Kit Awarded Performance-Tested Methods(SM) Certification from AOAC

InstantLabs Medical Diagnostics Corporation (InstantLabs®), developer of the portable Hunter Accele…

byRapidMicro •June 19, 2012

T2 Biosystems Presents Data on Novel Method for Endotoxin Detection at ASM 2012

T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today …

byRapidMicro •June 19, 2012

Bruker and the CDC Special Bacteriology Reference Laboratory Announce a Collaboration for Mass Spectrometry-based Microbial Identification

At the 112th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) in San Francisco, Bruker…

byRapidMicro •June 19, 2012

Bruker and JMI Laboratories Announce a Collaboration for Mass Spectrometry-based Microbial Identification of Fungi

At the 112th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) in San Francisco, Bruker…

byRapidMicro •June 19, 2012

Cepheid Welcomes UNITAID Commitment To Broaden Access To "Ground-Breaking" Xpert® MTB/RIF

Cepheid welcomed UNITAID's announcement that it has approved funding of $30 million to scale up…

byRapidMicro •June 18, 2012

Team Developing Network Biosystems MDx Platform for Biothreat Testing Under Five-Year NIH Grant

Researchers from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Emory University, and Network …

byRapidMicro •June 18, 2012

A Cheap, Fast, Portable Way to Diagnose Disease in the Developing World

When biomedical engineer Rick Haselton visited New Delhi’s largest public hospital last year, he sa…

byRapidMicro •June 18, 2012

Seegene Introduces the Industry's First Real-Time Multiplex Quantification Assay for Respiratory Diseases

Seegene Inc., a leading developer of multiplex molecular diagnostic technologies and tests, today a…

byRapidMicro •June 18, 2012

Immunetics Receives FDA Clearance for BacTx Rapid Test for Bacterial Contamination of Platelets

Immunetics, Inc., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its BacTx® rap…

byRapidMicro •June 15, 2012

Life Technologies and OpGen Sign Collaborative Agreement to Leverage Ion Torrent and Whole Genome Mapping Technologies

Life Technologies Corporation and OpGen, Inc., a commercial stage whole genome analysis company, an…

byRapidMicro •June 15, 2012

NanoLogix Announces Development of Multi-Well, Rapid Diagnostic Test Variant and Exhibits at the ASM General Meeting

NanoLogix announced today its R&D team in collaboration with University of Texas Health Science…

byRapidMicro •June 15, 2012

Strategic Diagnostics Inc. STEC Food Safety Product Receives USDA MLG Designation

Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (SDIX), a leading supplier of rapid detection solutions to the $1 billio…

byRapidMicro •June 15, 2012

High Speed Bench-top Sequencing to Revolutionise Hospital Infection Control

A new generation of bench-top DNA sequencers can quickly and cheaply map the entire genetic codes o…

byRapidMicro •June 12, 2012

Idaho Technology to Present at the 2012 American Society of Microbiology (ASM) General Meeting

Idaho Technology, Inc., a privately held clinical diagnostics company dedicated to providing the wo…

byRapidMicro •June 12, 2012

Brown University Researchers Develop Fast and Reliable Flu-Detection Test

This kit can be easily accommodated in a first-aid kit. The prototype device uses both microfluidic…

byRapidMicro •June 12, 2012

BD Obtains CE Marking for the BD MAX™ MRSA Assay

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), recently announced that it obtaine…

byRapidMicro •June 09, 2012

Portable, Rapid MRSA Test that Takes Less Than an Hour Ready for FDA Submission

A portable microfluidics device that can detect the presence of MRSA in fluid samples in less than …

byRapidMicro •June 09, 2012

Cepheid Receives CE Approval for New STD Assays on Their GeneXpert System

Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, received CE approval for a new infectious diseases assay on their GeneXpert…

byRapidMicro •June 05, 2012

Lucigen Awarded Grant to Develop Rapid Test for Influenza

Lucigen Corp. said it recently received a $2.8 million phase two Small Business Innovation Research…

byRapidMicro •June 03, 2012

A Blood Test to Spot All Strains of Bird Flu in Just 2 Hours

A single blood test can now detect the deadly H5N1 bird flu infection in just two hours time. Scien…

byRapidMicro •June 03, 2012

Azbil BioVigilant Responds to Patent Infringement Allegation

Azbil BioVigilant, Inc.,, inventors of Instantaneous Microbial Detection™, announced today that the…

byRapidMicro •June 01, 2012

Accelr8 and Denver Health Notified by Department of Defense for Rapid Diagnostics Award

Accelr8 Technology Corporation and Denver Health received notice that the Defense Medical Research …

byRapidMicro •June 01, 2012