Rapid Micro Methods News

U.S. Army Advances Bio-Threat Detector

The U.S. Army's second-generation Tactical Biological Detector, or TACBIO, will provide Soldiers…

byRapidMicro •January 23, 2015

Crystal Diagnostics Awarded AOAC-PTM Accreditation for the Rapid Detection of “Big 6” E.coli Food Pathogens

Crystal Diagnostics (CDx) Xpress System, a rapid and sensitive detection platform, announced today t…

byRapidMicro •January 22, 2015

Hygiena Introduces an Easy-to-Use Rapid Salmonella Environmental Monitoring Test

Hygiena has introduced the newest addition to its line of rapid microorganism tests; InSite Salmonel…

byRapidMicro •January 21, 2015

European Inventor Armed with Lab-on-a-Chip Fights Infectious Disease

Some argue antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of microbes to develop resistance to antimicr…

byRapidMicro •January 21, 2015

Genalyte Developing Differential Ebola Test for Maverick Chip-based System

During the Ebola crisis that swept through West Africa in 2014 and is ongoing in certain countries, …

byRapidMicro •January 21, 2015

Scientist Invents Rapid Test Capable of Detecting Viruses

A research scientist of Liberian origin, Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan, has invented a diagnostic test that…

byRapidMicro •January 21, 2015

Abaxis, Inc. Announces USDA Approval of VetScan FeLV/FIV Feline Rapid Test

Abaxis, Inc., a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care instruments and consumables for…

byRapidMicro •January 20, 2015

Vivione Biosciences Inc. Announces a Strategic Partnership with Sale of the RAPID-B System to AES Water Solutions

Vivione Biosciences Inc. ("Vivione") (VBI), announced today that it has sold the first of …

byRapidMicro •January 20, 2015

NIH awards $3MM Grant to Develop Rapid Diagnostic Test for Lyme Disease

Opko Health, Inc., a multinational biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, and Immuno Technologie…

byRapidMicro •January 19, 2015

DNAe Acquires nanoMR Own Complete Workflow for Point-Of-Need NGS-Based Blood-To-Result Diagnostic

DNA Electronics Ltd (‘DNAe’), the inventors of semiconductor DNA sequencing technology and developer…

byRapidMicro •January 19, 2015

European Union Announces 8 New Projects for Ebola Vaccines and Rapid Diagnostics

The IMI Ebola+ programme was launched in response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak that sta…

byRapidMicro •January 16, 2015

PositiveID Readies Next Prototype for Handheld Pathogen Detector

A biological detection developer said Tuesday that it had completed the second-phase prototype desig…

byRapidMicro •January 15, 2015

Real-time RT-PCR TaqMan Assay Discerns Latent TB Patients from those with Active Disease

Assay Accurately Differentiates Patients with Latent TB from those with Active Disease, According to…

byRapidMicro •January 08, 2015

Alere Receives FDA CLIA Waiver for Alere™ i Influenza A & B Test

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

byRapidMicro •January 08, 2015

3M Food Safety Launches 24-Hour Aerobic Bacteria Indicator Test

Thirty years ago, 3M launched its first 3M Petrifilm Plate, the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Aerobic Count Plate, …

byRapidMicro •January 06, 2015