Illumina has filed a lawsuit against BGI Group subsidiary Latvia MGI Tech in the Dsseldorf Regional Court in Germany, alleging that BGIs sequencing products and related reagents infringe a patent Illumina holds in Europe, EP 1 530 578 B1, w... Read More >

Grifols said on Thursday that it will acquire a 26.2 percent stake in Shanghai RAAS as part of a strategic alliance agreement to manufacture, market, and develop plasma products and transfusion diagnostic solutions in the Chinese market. Un... Read More >

The global urinalysis market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.5% from 2018 to 2022 to reach a value of USD 2.14 billion by 2022, driven by a large base of the target population and increasing demand for urinalysis due to unmet clinical ne... Read More >

German firm Cytena announced today that it has raised 3 million ($3.4 million) in a Series A financing round. The firm will use the funding to expand its sales activities, as well as further develop and explore potential applications for it... Read More >

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences (Indianapolis, IN, USA) has entered into a partnership with Apostle Inc. (Menlo Park, CA, USA) for the launch of Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency Cell-Free DNA Isolation Kit, a magnetic nanoparticle-based kit to... Read More >

Baxter International Inc. and bioMrieux announced an agreement to develop future biomarkers with the goal to rapidly identify and inform treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI). The announcement was made at the International Symposium on Inte... Read More >

Abbott announced today that it has received CE marking for its Alinity m molecular diagnostics system and assays, which are now available in countries that recognize the designation. The firm said that its molecular system will help clinici... Read More >

A recentstudyconcluded that a first-of-its-kind magnetic surgical system allows a safe, reproducible, incision-less technique for port-less intraabdominal mobilization. The Magnetic Surgical System, developed by Levita Magnetics, is so unlik... Read More >

Medical technology has made inroads in collecting data about health status that were considered impossible just a few short years ago. Automatic recording of data from things such as heart rate to glucose levels can be determined, stored, an... Read More >

A report from the Landscape Analysis Sub-Group of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC),Somatic Variant Reference Samples for NGS, Landscape of Available Reference Samples, compiles all the currently available somatic reference sam... Read More >