Rapid Micro Methods News

NanoLogix Provides Testing and Operations Update

A well-respected, independent, third-party laboratory has tested for Tuberculosis (TB) using NanoLo…

byRapidMicro •April 26, 2012

RPS Receives CLIA Waiver for New AdenoPlus™

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that AdenoPlus™ – an improved version o…

byRapidMicro •April 26, 2012

Biothreat Detection Firms Aim for Homeland Security’s $3 Billion BioWatch Gen-3 Prize

Much of the American public along with investors have probably forgotten about the 2001 anthrax att…

byRapidMicro •April 20, 2012

Idaho Technology to Highlight Diagnostic FilmArray® Respiratory Panel at 28th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium

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

byRapidMicro •April 20, 2012

3M Molecular Detection Assay for Salmonella Receives AOAC-PTM Approval

3M Food Safety announced today that its new 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay -- Salmonella has receive…

byRapidMicro •April 20, 2012

Dangerous Foods: From Farm to Fork

Does the five-second rule really count? How strict is the expiration date on milk? What could those…

byRapidMicro •April 20, 2012

QIAGEN Receives FDA Clearances for Rotor-Gene Q MDx Instrument and Compatible Influenza A/B Assay

QIAGEN N.V. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two 510(k) clear…

byRapidMicro •April 17, 2012

Molecular Detection Inc. Completes $1.9 Million Series B Financing For Detect-Ready® Panels For Infectious Disease Diagnosis

Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI), a company developing Detect-Ready® tests designed to increase the s…

byRapidMicro •April 17, 2012

Bruker Expands MALDI Biotyper Capabilities with New Protocols and Reference Libraries for Mycobacteria and Multicellular Fungi

At the 22nd ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) in London, …

byRapidMicro •April 17, 2012

Rapid Micro Biosystems Announces the 2013 Availability of Growth Direct™ Systems for Environmental Monitoring and Sterility Applications

Rapid Micro Biosystems One Oak Park Drive 2nd Floor Bedford, MA 01730 Contact Mark …

byRapidMicro •April 16, 2012

Quidel Receives CE Mark for Its Direct Specimen Rapid PCR Test for Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile

Quidel Corporation announced today that it received CE mark for the Quidel Molecular™ Direct C. dif…

byRapidMicro •April 13, 2012

Meridian Bioscience Awarded New Agreement with Premier Healthcare Alliance for Molecular Diagnostic Tests and Instruments for C. difficile and Group B Streptococcus

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. announced it has signed a new group purchasing agreement with the Premier…

byRapidMicro •April 13, 2012

New High-Tech Tactic May Expose Stealthy Salmonella

Even the smallest quantity of Salmonella can wreak havoc for growers and food processors. But now s…

byRapidMicro •April 12, 2012

FDA Clears the Quest Diagnostics Simplexa® C. difficile Molecular Test

Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services…

byRapidMicro •April 12, 2012

A Bit of Gold and Nanotechnology Bring Viruses to Light

Diagnostic tests that rapidly detect disease-causing viruses in animals and humans are being develo…

byRapidMicro •April 11, 2012

UCF Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Hunt for Hidden Pathogens

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a novel technique that may give doc…

byRapidMicro •April 11, 2012

Life Technologies Receives the First and Only PCR-based FDA Method Equivalency for Salmonella Enteritidis in Poultry Eggs and Environmental Samples

Life Technologies Corporation announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its…

byRapidMicro •April 06, 2012

Lab21 Deal Targets Killer Fungus

Lab21 in Cambridge is partnering a world-leading diagnostics company to find a fast detector for a …

byRapidMicro •April 06, 2012

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

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

byRapidMicro •April 03, 2012

Idaho Technology Launches FilmArray® Respiratory Panel at European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Idaho Technology, Inc., a privately held biotechnology and clinical diagnostics company dedicated t…

byRapidMicro •April 02, 2012

New Assay Rapidly Identifies Lethal Pathogen Responsible for Clostridium difficile Infection

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced that it obtained C…

byRapidMicro •April 02, 2012

Bruker and University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Announce a Collaboration within new European Network for Rapid Identification of Anaerobes (ENRIA)

At the 22nd ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) in London, …

byRapidMicro •April 02, 2012

Quidel Receives CE Mark for Its AmpliVue™ Hand-Held Molecular Diagnostic Test for Clostridium difficile

Quidel Corporation announced today that it received CE mark for the AmpliVue C. difficile assay, it…

byRapidMicro •April 01, 2012

New MRSA Bacteria Test Developed by Edinburgh University Scientists

A simple test to identify MRSA in wounds could identify the superbug quickly and help prevent infec…

byRapidMicro •April 01, 2012

Molecular Detection Inc. Launches Improved Version of Detect-Ready® MRSA Panel at 2012 ECCMID Congress

Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI), a company developing Detect-Ready® tests designed to increase the s…

byRapidMicro •April 01, 2012

Abbott's PLEX-ID Molecular System and Tests for Broad Microbial Identification Obtain CE Marking

Abbott announced today it has obtained CE Marking (Conformite Europeene) in the European Union to m…

byRapidMicro •April 01, 2012