Rapid Micro Methods News

Life Technologies Signs Five-Year Food-Safety Agreement with the FDA

Life Technologies Corporation today announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with the Foo…

byRapidMicro •July 31, 2013

BD, Diagenode Announce European Launch of Real-Time PCR Kit for Bordetella pertussis & parapertussis

BD Diagnostics, a division of global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company),…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Listeria Monocytogenes PCR Assay Offers Validated Method for Fast, Simple Detection of Food Pathogens

Food microbiology laboratories can now confidently test to a recognized standard for Listeria monoc…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Genisphere Licenses 3DNA Dendrimer Signal Amplification Technology to Chembio for Lateral Flow Rapid Test Applications

Genisphere LLC has licensed its 3DNA® Signal Amplification technology to Chembio Diagnostics, Inc.,…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Successful Completion of Flagship Enigma ML System Evaluation at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Enigma Diagnostics Ltd announces that it has successfully completed analytical and diagnostic verif…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

FDA Grants Marketing Approval for Cepheid's Xpert MTB/RIF for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Cepheid, a leading molecular diagnostics company, has received market authorisation from the US Foo…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Co-Diagnostics and DNA Logix Form Joint Venture to Address High Burden Developing Countries

Co-Diagnostics, Inc. and DNA Logix announced today that they have reached an agreement to form a jo…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Minnesota Team Develops First PED Virus Rapid Test

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a rapid diagnostic test for porcine epidemic dia…

byRapidMicro •July 30, 2013

Invisible Sentinel to Participate in IAFP Food-Safety Meeting

Invisible Sentinel Inc., a life-sciences company that develops rapid diagnostics for the detection …

byRapidMicro •July 22, 2013

GeXP Analyzer Detects Foodborne Pathogens

Researchers have modified a device for the detection of selected foodborne pathogens in a single re…

byRapidMicro •July 22, 2013

Seegene Develops Novel Real-Time Array Technology for Point of Care Testing

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

byRapidMicro •July 22, 2013

DxNA Acquiring PathoGene in MRSA MDx-Centric Deal

St. George, UT-based molecular diagnostics firm DxNA is slated to acquire PathoGene, a company that…

byRapidMicro •July 19, 2013

Sequencing Quickly Identifies Resistant TB

Whole-genome sequencing offers a means of rapid characterization of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis…

byRapidMicro •July 18, 2013

Quidel Obtains Special 510(k) Clearance to Add Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus Analytical Reactivity Information

Quidel Corporation, a provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, cell-based virology assays an…

byRapidMicro •July 16, 2013

Funding Awarded to Detect E. Coli in Food Processing Facilities

Genome Alberta is pleased to announce on behalf of our funding partners the Alberta Livestock and M…

byRapidMicro •July 16, 2013

BioMérieux, Ultimate Labs Partner on Mass Spec-based Microbial Identification

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, is pleased to announce it has join…

byRapidMicro •July 14, 2013

Last Chance to Register for the Introduction to Rapid Micro Methods Webinar - July 15

The implementation of rapid methods is increasing in many areas, including pharmaceutical manufactur…

byRapidMicro •July 11, 2013

Researchers Create Novel Sequencing Technique to Rapidly Identify Disease-Causing Pathogens

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and George Washington University (GWU)…

byRapidMicro •July 11, 2013

New Genotyping Technology for Rapid Strain Typing WIll Debut at Annual Food Protection Meeting

PathoGenetix will introduce the RESOLUTION Microbial Genotyping System at the 2013 International As…

byRapidMicro •July 11, 2013

InstantLabs Receives AOAC Certification for Its Listeria monocytogenes Kit

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

byRapidMicro •July 10, 2013

3M Food Safety Announces Molecular Detection Assay for Listeria monocytogenes

3M Food Safety today announced the launch of its new 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay Listeria monocyt…

byRapidMicro •July 10, 2013

Rapid Tests Under Development Improve Pathogen Testing of Foods

Advances in pathogen testing are coming soon, according to Trevor Suslow, extension research specia…

byRapidMicro •July 08, 2013

PathoGenetix, Applied Maths to Integrate Rapid Strain Typing and Bioinformatics Tools

PathoGenetix, Inc., a developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial identification, and Appl…

byRapidMicro •July 05, 2013

Zyomyx Receives Financing to Enable Launch of Low-Cost, Rapid Point-of-Care CD4 Test for HIV

Zyomyx, Inc. announced that it completed the first closing of its Series 2 Preferred financing tota…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2013

Rapid Micro Biosystems Secures $32.6 Million in Financing

Rapid Micro Biosystems, a leading provider of automated,non-destructive, rapid microbial detection …

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2013

Milwaukee Area Researchers Have New, Faster Test for Sepsis

Researchers in the Milwaukee area have developed a new automated test to identify most leading caus…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2013

Blackpool Hospitals Use Genetic Testing to Reduce MRSA

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced rapid screening for the superbug M…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2013

3M Takes Over UK Rapid Diagnostics Company Acolyte Biomedica

3M has acquired Acolyte Biomedica Ltd., a Salisbury, UK-based provider of an automated microbial de…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2013

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Added to Microbiologics EZ-CFU Quantitative QC Microorganism Product Line for Growth Promotion Testing

Leading producer of ready-to-use quality control microorganisms, Microbiologics Inc., has add…

byRapidMicro •July 02, 2013

Two New bioMérieux Listeria Assays Now AOAC Approved

bioMérieux, a manufacturer in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today received two First Action Of…

byRapidMicro •July 01, 2013

UC Davis Developing Rapid Pathogen Tests for Food Safety

Advances in pathogen testing are coming soon, according to Trevor Suslow, extension research specia…

byRapidMicro •July 01, 2013