Rapid Micro Methods News

Roche Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for the LightMix® Ebola Zaire rRT-PCR Test

Roche today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided an Emergency Use…

byRapidMicro •December 29, 2014

Corgenix Announces New Grants to Advance Work on Ebola Test Kit

Corgenix Medical Corporation, a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits, has been a…

byRapidMicro •December 29, 2014

Arrayit Signs Cooperative R&D Agreement with the US Department of Agriculture to Develop Rapid Noroviruses and Foodborne Pathogen Detection Technologies

Arrayit Corporation announced that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (C…

byRapidMicro •December 22, 2014

Quidel Receives Simultaneous FDA Clearance and CLIA Waiver for Its Sofia(R) Strep A+ Fluorescent Immunoassay (FIA) via the FDA's New Dual Submission Program

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

byRapidMicro •December 22, 2014

Roche Launches Next-Gen Viral Load Assay for CMV in Markets Accepting the CE Mark

Roche announced today the commercial availability of the cobas® CMV assay for use on the cobas® 6800…

byRapidMicro •December 22, 2014

U of T Engineering Team Delivers $1 Detection System for Measles and Rubella

U of T Engineering researchers have developed a paper-based diagnostic system for use in some of the…

byRapidMicro •December 17, 2014

Vivione Biosciences Announces Successful Completion of Its Early-Stage Pilot Study at the Cleveland Clinic

Vivione Biosciences Inc. is pleased to announce the successful completion of its early stage pilot s…

byRapidMicro •December 17, 2014

FDA Grants CLIA Waiver Expanding the Availability of Rapid Screening Test for Syphilis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it granted the first-ever waiver, under c…

byRapidMicro •December 16, 2014

Fio Intelligent Devices to Automate Ebola Rapid Test Reading and Data Capture

Fio Corporation today announced that it has received a grant financed by the Bill & Melinda Gate…

byRapidMicro •December 15, 2014

Abbott Pathogen Detection Platform Obtains CE Mark

Abbott has announced its innovative diagnostic platform, known as IRIDICA, is now available in Europ…

byRapidMicro •December 14, 2014

Rapid Ebola Test Is Focus of NIH Grant to Rutgers Scientist

A Rutgers researcher has received a grant of nearly $640,000 from the National Institutes of Health …

byRapidMicro •December 14, 2014

Quidel Receives FDA Clearance for Its AmpliVue® Hand-Held Molecular Diagnostic Test for Bordetella Pertussis

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

byRapidMicro •December 13, 2014

Rapid Micro Biosystems Announces Availability of Bi-Directional LIMS Integration

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

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

Neogen Acquires Assets of its Chinese Distributor

Neogen Corporation announced that it has acquired the food safety and veterinary genomic assets of i…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Grants CLIA Waiver for Alere Determine™ HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab Combo Test

Alere Inc., a global leader in rapid diagnostic tests, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

Health Canada Extends DuPont™ BAX® System Certification for E. coli O157:H7 Testing

The Health Canada Microbiological Methods Committee has extended its approval of the DuPont™ BAX® Sy…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

Rapid Microbiological Water Tester Wins ‘Product Innovation in Healthcare’ Category at IHEEM Awards

IDEXX Water (UK) , the global leader in rapid microbiological water testing, today announced that it…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

Cepheid’s Xpert Norovirus Test Gets Green Light from FDA

Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company, recently received clearance from the U.S Food and Drug Adm…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

Ceres to Develop New Method for Detecting the Presence of Ebola Virus in Saliva

Ceres Nanosciences Inc. (Ceres) today announced the commencement of a development program, funded by…

byRapidMicro •December 03, 2014

IDT and Ubiquitome Partner to Develop Mobile Ebola Test

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), and Ubiquitome today announced a partnership to develop the Ubiqu…

byRapidMicro •December 02, 2014

Irish Luxcel Biosciences Develops “Game-changing” Rapid Method for Milk and Dairy Products

Luxcel Biosciences, with partners MOCON and Oculer, have developed a platform of rapid microbiology …

byRapidMicro •December 02, 2014

British-Led Scientists Trial 15-minute Ebola Test in Guinea

British scientists announced trials on a 15-minute Ebola test in Guinea as French President Francois…

byRapidMicro •November 29, 2014

Romer Labs’ RapidChek Listeria NextDay AOAC Certification is Extended for Monitoring Food Samples

Romer Labs announced that its RapidChek® Listeria NextDay™ test system earned Performance-Tested Met…

byRapidMicro •November 26, 2014

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Samsung Electronics to Collaborate on Point-of-Care Diagnostic Solutions

To answer the healthcare industry’s demand for better point-of-care (POC) diagnostics, Thermo Fisher…

byRapidMicro •November 25, 2014

TECHLAB Develops Diagnostic for Tropical Disease

Vacationers might spend time finding the perfect souvenir to remember a trip. One thing they don’t w…

byRapidMicro •November 24, 2014

Chembio Signs Agreement With CDC Contractor to Develop a Multiplex Point-of-Care Test for Influenza Immunity

Chembio Diagnostics, Inc., a leader in point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for infectious diseases,…

byRapidMicro •November 24, 2014

i-calQ Receives U.S. Patent for Smartphone-Based Method of Rapid Diagnostic Testing

i-calQ LLC today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the compan…

byRapidMicro •November 20, 2014

FDA OKs Army's Diagnostic Tool for Skin Disease

Army scientists at Fort Detrick are hailing the Food and Drug Administration's approval of a too…

byRapidMicro •November 17, 2014

Test Developed for Rapid Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections

A  new bloodstream infection test created by Univ. of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers can speed…

byRapidMicro •November 14, 2014

Cepheid Receives Grant to Develop Ebola Diagnostic Test

Molecular diagnostics company Cepheid said it received a grant of up to $3.3 million, co-financed by…

byRapidMicro •November 14, 2014

PositiveID Corporation Signs Agreement With U.S. Special Operations Command

PositiveID Corporation, a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, announced tod…

byRapidMicro •November 10, 2014

FIND and QuantuMDx Partner to Develop Rapid Genome-based Diagnostics for Tuberculosis

FIND, a Geneva-based non-profit organization, is joining forces with UK diagnostics developer Quantu…

byRapidMicro •November 10, 2014

MBio Diagnostics Awarded Contract for Diagnostic Development With the U.S. Army

MBio Diagnostics, Inc. announced today it was awarded a three-year development contract with the U.S…

byRapidMicro •November 05, 2014

WholeHEALTH Products Announces Completion of its Global Distribution Rights for the Real Time PCR Rapid Ebola Test

WholeHEALTH Products will market its PCR Rapid Ebola Test directly to Africa and South American coun…

byRapidMicro •November 04, 2014

Accelerate Diagnostics Announces Research Collaboration With CDC for Early Detection of Antibiotic-Resistant Biothreat Agents

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc., an in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to providing solutions for t…

byRapidMicro •November 04, 2014

New Cystic Fibrosis, TB & Pneumonia Breathalyzer Test Proves To Be Fast, Inexpensive

Santa Fe, New Mexico based startup Avisa Pharma Inc. is a clinical stage company established in 2010…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2014