US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and will lay off more than 100 scientific staff, as the industry accuses ministers of making the UK uncompetitive and paying too little for medicines.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced it has reached a strategic agreement with LabFlorida/SunDx Labs to provide residents of senior living communities access to Guardant Shield™, the first blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a primary screening option for colorectal cancer (CRC). As part of the agreement, LabFlorida will serve as the exclusive distributor to senior living communities throughout Florida. LabFlorida/SunDX provides premier concierge-style lab testing, tailored specifically for assisted and independent living and homebound patients.

Siemens Healthineers AG has been holding exploratory discussions with some of the largest private equity firms about a potential sale of its diagnostics segment, according to people with knowledge of the matter said.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has achieved CE-IVDR certification for its full portfolio of QIAstat-Dx syndromic testing systems and panels, including an expanded Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) Panel that sets a new benchmark in the diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) infections.

Altesa BioSciences, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to preventing and treating rhinovirus infections, one of the leading causes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma exacerbations, today announced a partnership with bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, to utilize the BIOFIRE® SPOTFIRE® respiratory solution as its core point-of-care diagnostics platform at U.S. sites for Altesa’s upcoming Phase 2B clinical trial.

Epigenetics firm VolitionRx and Werfen said Tuesday that they have signed a licensing and commercialization deal covering the use of Volition's antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) test with Werfen's analyzers.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced a strategic partnership with PathGroup, one of the nation’s leading partners to physicians, hospitals, and healthcare networks nationwide, to significantly expand the reach of Guardant’s FDA-approved Shield™ blood test. The partnership will bring Shield to more than 250 hospitals and health systems, over 15,000 PathGroup-affiliated physicians across 25 states, and allow more patients to benefit from Guardant’s industry-leading Shield blood test for early cancer detection through PathGroup’s large network of EMR hospital integrations and phlebotomists. More than five million patients each year receive testing through PathGroup.

Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”), a company focused on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology, today reported financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2025.

Siemens Partners with Rejoin Medical to Build a Digital Future for Sports Medicine Medical Devices Siemens Industrial Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Rejoin Medical recently officially s..

Octave Bioscience, Inc., a commercial stage precision care company that is pioneering a new standard for managing multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, today announces the close of its $35.6 million Series C equity financing and that it has entered into a $15.5 million non-dilutive term loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) a Division of First Citizens Bank.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today it has received CE IVDR approval for two label expansions for its VENTANA® HER2 (4B5) Rabbit Monoclonal Primary Antibody RxDx* assay. HER2 is a receptor protein expressed in a variety of cancers and serves as a predictive biomarker to help determine if a patient will respond to HER2-targeted therapy.

The Board of Directors of bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, met on September 3, under the chairmanship of Alexandre Mérieux and approved the consolidated financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2025.

Siemens Healthineers and Evident said Wednesday that they are partnering on the delivery of a digital pathology workflow to the German nonprofit teaching hospital Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Cyted Health, a leading gastrointestinal (GI) molecular diagnostics company, today announces a first close of $44 million in its Series B financing round to accelerate its ongoing US expansion.

Mercy BioAnalytics, Inc., a pioneer in extracellular vesicle-based liquid biopsies for the early detection of cancer, today announced the closing of a $59 million series B financing. The round was co-led by Novalis and Sozo Ventures, with participation from Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Funds, American Cancer Society BrightEdge, and iSelect Fund, as well as funds committed to women’s health and leadership including Portfolia, Avestria Ventures, and Mindshift Capital. The round also included significant participation from strategic investors including Hologic, Bruker Scientific, and Labcorp.