Rapid Micro Methods News

Roche Molecular Systems’ cobas vivoDx MRSA Gets FDA Approval

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Roche Molecular System…

byRapidMicro •December 10, 2019

QuantuMDx and Ontera Collaborate to Advance Sepsis Diagnosis

QuantuMDx Group Limited and Ontera, Inc have announced a collaboration to create a next-generation …

byRapidMicro •December 10, 2019

Rutgers University Receives 2019 Edison Award for Rapid Test for Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

A milestone patent for a rapid, automated test for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and Ri…

byRapidMicro •November 24, 2019

Immunexpress Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering the Differentiation of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Sepsis-Causing Bacteria

Immunexpress, Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Patent No. U.…

byRapidMicro •November 24, 2019

Researchers Develop Affordable New Test For Dengue

Researchers have developed a user-friendly dengue test that could help diagnose the growing tropica…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2019

T2 Biosystems’ T2Resistance™ Panel is First Diagnostic to Graduate from CARB-X Portfolio

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of innovative medical diagno…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2019

Portable DNA Sequencer Quickly and Accurately Diagnoses Wheat Viruses

A group of scientists in Kansas, based at The Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2019

Faster Identification of Bacterial Infections Using Raman Spectroscopy Could Save Lives

Utilizing a Renishaw Raman spectroscopy system, a team of researchers from the Czech Academy of Sci…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2019

IIT Delhi Researchers Developing Technology for Rapid Diagnosis by Reducing Antibacterial Resistance

Researchers at IIT Delhi are working on a technology to devise diagnostic solutions for combating t…

byRapidMicro •November 01, 2019

Pittsburgh Research Team Uses Rapid Diagnosis Technology to Tackle HIV Testing Problems

As associate medical director of clinical immunopathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical C…

byRapidMicro •October 16, 2019

FDA Allows Marketing of First Rapid Diagnostic Test for Detecting Ebola Virus Antigens

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to detect …

byRapidMicro •October 16, 2019

Microfluidic Device for Rapid Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a microfluidic device that can diagnose Lyme dise…

byRapidMicro •October 16, 2019

Researchers Use Electrical Signalling to Detect Bacteria

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found bacteria can be detected in minutes by zapping …

byRapidMicro •August 07, 2019

NC State Developing New Technology that will Help Farmers Detect Plant Pathogens

The fresh food in your grocery stores could eventually get cheaper thanks in part to new technology…

byRapidMicro •August 07, 2019

Mesa Biotech to Present Comparative Flu & RSV Detection Analysis with Other FDA-Cleared Molecular Assays at AACC

Mesa Biotech Inc. is a privately-held, molecular diagnostic company that has developed the Accula™ …

byRapidMicro •August 07, 2019

Using Quantum Dots and a Smartphone to Rapidly Detect Bacterial Pathogens

A combination of off-the-shelf quantum dot nanotechnology and a smartphone camera soon could allow …

byRapidMicro •August 07, 2019

IIT Guwahati Researchers Develop Tri-Layer Dielectric Organic Field Effect Transistor to Rapidly Detect Bacteria

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Researchers have developed a low-cost, hand-held device to …

byRapidMicro •August 07, 2019

Luminex Submits ARIES MRSA Assay for FDA Clearance

Luminex Corporation announced that the company submitted the ARIES® MRSA Assay to the U.S. Food and…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2019

Chemiluminescence Probes for the Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Salmonella and Listeria

Salmonella and listeria are among the most widely distributed and deadliest causes of foodborne inf…

byRapidMicro •July 03, 2019

LamdaGen and Arisan Therapeutics Receive a $2 Million NIH SBIR Phase II Grant to Develop a Dual Rapid Point-of-Care Test for Acute Dengue and Zika Viral Infections

LamdaGen Corporation and Arisan Therapeutics announced today they will share a $2 million Phase II …

byRapidMicro •June 27, 2019

New Rapid Test Significantly More Effective for TB-diagnosis in People with HIV

A new study has shown a new point-of-care (POC) device to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in people livi…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

Metagenomic Sequencing Improves Diagnosis of Neurologic Infections

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing, or NGS, of cerebrospinal fluid can improve the diagnosis of…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

T2Candida Diagnostic Test for ICU Patients at Risk for Invasive Candidiasis

Although the diagnostic performance for all tests were modest in regards to the detection of invasi…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

New Data Shows That Karius Blood Test Can Non-Invasively Detect Pathogens In Deep Infections

Karius, a life sciences company that delivers genomic insights for infectious diseases, announced n…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

A Forgotten Disease': the Diagnostic Test Which Could Revive the Battle to Eradicate Yaws

A rapid diagnostic test to identify yaws, a debilitating skin disease which affects thousands of th…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

New Rapid Test Diagnoses Pneumonia and Other Lower Respiratory Infections

Scientists at UEA and the Quadram Institute have developed a new, rapid way of diagnosing lower res…

byRapidMicro •June 26, 2019

Loyola Research Paves Way for Simple Test for Ebola Virus

Existing tests for the deadly virus are inaccurate, expensive and can be challenging to administer,…

byRapidMicro •June 04, 2019