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Insight into serology testing

During the course of the current coronavirus pandemic we have all been aware of the urgent need for nucleic acid testing to identify people currently infected with SARS-CoV-2. The second test that is needed, the serology test, to identify who has had the virus, is much more complex to produce. Dr Andy Lane, commercial director […]

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Dolomite and Mologic collaborate to scale-up manufacture of nanoparticles for Covid-19 diagnostic tests

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses in countries around the globe, there is an urgent need for rapid and reliable point-of-need detection testing. Dolomite Microfluidics and Mologic are working together to accelerate the development and launch of these tests. UK-based Mologic is a leading developer of rapid response diagnostic tests for diseases such as malaria and […]

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Siemens Healthineers awarded FDA approval for RAPIDPoint 500e Blood Gas Analyzer

Siemens Healthineers’s latest critical care testing solution, the RAPIDPoint® 500e Blood Gas Analyzer, has received clearance from the U.S. FDA, and is now available in the U.S., Europe and countries requiring the CE mark. The analyser generates blood gas, electrolyte, metabolite, CO-oximetry, and neonatal bilirubin results, which are used to diagnose and monitor critically ill […]

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Avacta ships SARS-COV-2 Affimer reagents to Cytiva and Adeptrix for diagnostic test development

Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer biotherapeutics and reagents, has started shipping Affimer reagents for COVID-19 antigen testing to its diagnostic test development partners. The Group recently reported that it had generated multiple, highly specific Affimer reagents that bind the SARS-COV-2 viral antigen and do not cross-react with SARS, MERS and other closely related […]

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Horizon Discovery releases CRISPR screening for primary human B cells

Cambridge, UK-based Horizon Discovery Group, specializing in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, has released an arrayed CRISPR knockout screening service for primary human B cells to its cell-based screening services. The new B cell screening service, the first of its kind in the market, will enable researchers to […]

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UK consortium set to trial COVID-19 adenoviral vaccine candidate

A research consortium led by the Jenner Institute, Oxford University is set to begin fast-tracked clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine. The adenoviral vaccine candidate, ChAdOx1 nCov-19 (ChAdOx1) is one of five frontrunner vaccines in development around the world, and expected to be the UK’s first COVID-19 vaccine. Developed at the Jenner Institute, ChAdOx1 is […]

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Siemens starts worldwide shipping of total antibody test for COVID-19

Siemens Healthineers announced late May that it is now shipping worldwide its laboratory-based total antibody test to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibodies in blood. The test received the CE mark and data has demonstrated 100 percent sensitivity and 99.8 percent specificity. The total antibody test allows for identification of patients who […]

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Oxford companies join forces to scale up production of Covid-19 reagents

OXGENE and The Native Antigen Company have joined forces to scale up production of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) reagents by combining OXGENE’s proprietary Adenoviral Protein Machine Technology with The Native Antigen Company’s antigen development expertise. Together, OXGENE and The Native Antigen Company will aim to scale their antigen manufacturing capabilities to deliver high-purity, recombinant proteins for the […]

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Making SARS-CoV-2 testing available to labs everywhere

As COVID-19 multiplied across the globe in early 2020, IVD companies raced to provide testing solutions. However, rapid development of diagnostic solutions led in some cases to compromised reagent quality, causing confusion and concern amongst clinicians and lab professionals. With this background, Erba Mannheim committed to develop reliable and affordable solutions to SARS-CoV-2 testing. First […]

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COVID-19: Antibody & Molecular Testing Solutions by NovaTec Immundiagnostica GmbH

NovaTec is excited to collaborate in the fight against COVID-19 providing reliable direct pathogen and antibody detection assays to aid in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. These tests are CE-IVD marked and immediately available. The development of the assays has been spearheaded by affiliate companies Gold Standard Diagnostics Inc., NovaTec Immundiagnostica GmbH, and VIROTECH Diagnostics GmbH. […]