Roche India Diagnostics unveils new automated solution

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jul, 2019

Roche Diagnostics India has announced the launch of its latest diagnostic technology - cobas® pro integrated solutions - which brings to India’s IVD labs an opportunity to establi...Read more

FIND signs $14.5M grant with UNITAID for rapid TB diagnosis

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Jul, 2019

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) has announced that a new $14.5 million grant has been signed with Unitaid to evaluate the use of next-generation sequencing (N...Read more

Abbott launches HBA1C test to aid in diagnosis of diabetes

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Jun, 2019

Abbott has announced that its Afinion™ HbA1c Dx assay is now available for use on the Afinion 2 Analyzer, as well as the Afinion AS100 Analyzer. The Afinion HbA1c Dx assay is the fir...Read more

PATH, Quansys Bio develop new diagnostic tool for malaria

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Jun, 2019

PATH and Quansys Biosciences, Inc. have announced the launch of a new diagnostic tool designed to help researchers develop more sensitive and reliable malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) ...Read more

Bayer to develop NGS based companion diagnostics in oncology

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 31 May, 2019

Bayer AG and Foundation Medicine, Inc. have announced a global collaboration for the development and commercialization of NGS-based companion diagnostics. This agreement allows for collabo...Read more

Cepheid gets FDA nod for Xpert® CT/NG Test

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 30 May, 2019

Cepheid announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for testing throat and rectal specimens with its Xpert® CT/NG test. The test provides fas...Read more

FDA approves diagnostic tests for chlamydia and gonorrhoea

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 24 May, 2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing two tests that can detect the presence of the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which cause the sexually-...Read more

GE Healthcare, Indi Molecular to develop diagnostic tool for immunotherapy patients

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 20 May, 2019

GE Healthcare and Indi Molecular, Inc, a  California-based biotechnology company, have announced plans to develop immune cell-targeted Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) tracer candida...Read more

India’s state forensic labs to expand its infrastructure

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 16 May, 2019

Led by Delhi and Maharashtra, India’s forensic laboratories have managed to reduce pendency of DNA testing cases by a 50% national average. While Delhi has eliminated most of its...Read more

Roche launches detection test for antibiotic resistance in TB

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 15 May, 2019

Roche has announced the CE-IVD launch of the cobas® MTB-RIF/INH test to detect resistance to antibiotics within tuberculosis DNA. This assay is part of the mycobacteria test menu t...Read more

WHO prequalifies Abbott's breakthrough HIV test

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 06 May, 2019

Abbott has announced that m-PIMA™ HIV-1/2 VL, the world's first point-of-care viral load diagnostic test, has received the World Health Organization's Prequalification approval (...Read more

CallHealth, LiveHealth to accelerate healthcare diagnostics in India

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2019

CallHealth, the world’s first and truly integrated healthcare platform for “Everything about health”, has announced its tie-up with LiveHealth, a SaaS based end-...Read more

BD celebrates 70 years of advancing specimen collection

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Apr, 2019

Dialogue 2019 Leadership Summit organized by BD Life Sciences – Preanalytical Systems in India marked the success of 70 years of BD Vacutainer® worldwide. Considered as the gold s...Read more

Thermo Fisher, NX Prenatal to develop pregnancy outcome assay

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Apr, 2019

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and NX Prenatal Inc., a recognized leader in the detection, monitoring and management of pregnancy-related complications ...Read more

LifeCell introduces genetic testing for cord blood samples

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Apr, 2019

LifeCell International, India's first and largest community stem cell bank, has announced its next milestone - initiation of genetic testing on all cord blood samples before they ...Read more

Myriad, AstraZeneca and Merck expand companion diagnostic partnership

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Apr, 2019

Myriad Genetics, a leader in personalized medicine has announced that it has expanded its companion diagnostic collaboration with AstraZeneca and Merck (known as MSD outside the US and Cana...Read more

Fujifilm India, Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital to end TB together

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 25 Mar, 2019

Fujifilm India in partnership with Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital, Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, organized an awareness program ‘TOGETHER END TB’ to help eradicate tuberculosis ...Read more

Dr. Lal PathLabs collaborates with ORDI to sensitize India on Rare diseases

Diagnostics |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2019

Observing Rare Disease Awareness day on 28th February 2019, Dr. Lal PathLabs Ltd. has associated with Organization of Rare Disease India (ORDI) for a campaign “RARE NEEDS CARE”....Read more