Rapid Micro Methods News

FDA Clears First Point of Care Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit for Chagas Disease

InBios announced today that it received 510K Clearance from the FDA for its Chagas Detect Plus Rap…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Aeon Clinical Laboratories Launches MDx Advantage™ - an Innovative Women’s Health, qPCR-Based Diagnostic Test for STDs and Other Infections

Authentidate Holding Corp., a provider of diagnostic services including toxicology and genetic tes…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

ReadCoor, Inc. Receives a Grant to Support a Novel Pathogen Detection System

ReadCoor, Inc. (“ReadCoor”) announced a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundat…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Nanomix Advances Rapid Diagnostic Panel to Aid Emergency Evaluation of Sepsis

Nanomix, Inc. today revealed the first rapid diagnostic test panel designed to quickly evaluate pa…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Curetis Acquires Real-Time qPCR Platform from Carpegen and Systec

Curetis N.V. (the "Company" and, together with Curetis GmbH, "Curetis"), a dev…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Rapid Detection of Propionibacterium acnes in Shoulder Surgery

Propionibacterium acnes infection of the shoulder after arthroplasty is a scourge for patients and…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

First WHO Prequalified Hepatitis C Rapid Test Opens Door to Expanded Treatment

WHO has just prequalified its first hepatitis C virus (HCV) rapid diagnostic test, a tool that wil…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Vitas Pharma Receives Discovery Award for Developing Prototype Diagnostic Test

Vitas Pharma, an R&D driven company focused on developing drugs and diagnostics to detect and …

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Automated Systems Launched by Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter has launched two automated systems in the UK to ease rapidly increasing workloads …

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

FDA Completes Transfer of Emergency Use Authorization for ReEBOV Ebola Antigen Rapid Test to Zalgen Labs

Zalgen Labs LLC (Zalgen), a biotechnology and diagnostics company focused on high-impact, neglecte…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

BITRI Develops Rapid Foot and Mouth Disease Test Kit

Botswana Institute of Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) is developing the kits in collabo…

byRapidMicro •December 20, 2016

Hygiena to Acquire Food Safety Diagnostics Business from DuPont, Including BAX and RiboPrinter Rapid Methods

DuPont Nutrition & Health and Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in …

byRapidMicro •December 19, 2016

New, Rapid Diagnostic Test for Malaria Wins $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University headed by Stevenson…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

FDA Completes Transfer of Emergency Use Authorization for ReEBOV® Ebola Antigen Rapid Test to Zalgen Labs

Zalgen Labs LLC, a biotechnology and diagnostics company focused on high-impact, neglected infecti…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

OpGen, Merck Enter Rapid Diagnostics, IT Products Development Collaboration

OpGen, Inc. announced it has entered into a research collaboration with Merck to develop new rapid…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Researchers Exploring New Platform for Detecting Pathogenic Bacteria Using Bacteriophages

Bacterial pathogens pose serious health risks, especially for infants, young children, elderly and…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Sekisui Diagnostics Announces OSOM® Ultra Flu A&B Test is now CLIA Waived

Sekisui Diagnostics announces the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Clinical Lab…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Miacom Diagnostics and MetaSystems: First Ultra-Rapid Phenotypic MRSA/MSSA Differentiation Assay

As a joint effort, Miacom Diagnostics GmbH and MetaSystems GmbH announced the development of an ul…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Light Sensor Spots Deadly Bacteria in Minutes

Outbreaks of Legionnaire’s Disease, a respiratory infection that can cause pneumonia, and in sever…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Bruker Acquires NAT Assay Lab Infrastructure and IP; Hires R&D Team

Bruker announced a technology acquisition in support of its microbiology business and its world-le…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Cepheid Rapid Flu/RSV Test Receives CE Mark

Cepheid has received CE marking on a rapid test for influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, the…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Zalgen and NOWDiagnostics Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Novel Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Tropical Diseases

Zalgen Labs LLC, a biotechnology and diagnostics company focused on high-impact, neglected infecti…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives $3.6m grant to Atomo Diagnostics

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $3.6 million to Sydney's Atomo Diagnostics…

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016

FDA Clears Quidel Rapid MDx Strep Test

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

byRapidMicro •November 21, 2016