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