PamGene International said Tuesday that the European Innovation Council's Accelerator program will provide €7.5 million ($8.2 million) in funding to develop and market the firm's prognostic test for immunotherapy response in metastatic cancer treatment.

In some areas with weak medical resources in China, it is difficult for the public to obtain quality medical services and have to seek treatment across provinces and regions, which is a heavy economic and time burden.

MOROCCO ¨C Techniques Science Sant¨¦ (T2S), a distributor of high-tech medical equipment based in Casablanca, has expanded a multi-year agreement with American company GE Healthcare, with a focus on ultra-modern modern technology.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has completed its acquisition of MarqMetrix, a privately held developer of Raman-based spectroscopy solutions for in-line measurement. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Roche said Tuesday that it secured US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearances for a pair of assays to aid diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease measuring levels of beta-amyloid and tau proteins.

POCT industry started late in China, the overall market size is still small currently, and the penetration rate in hospitals and other terminal sites is low, so there is a huge potential development space. Qianzhan Institute predicts that from 2022-2027, the Chinese POCT market will rise by about 9% CAGR to about 18 billion yuan in 2027.

Prenetics Global Limited, a leading genomics-driven health sciences company, and Prof. Dennis Lo today announce they have entered into an agreement to establish a joint venture named Insighta. The board of directors of Prenetics Global Limited has unanimously approved the transaction.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford Nanopore) and leading China-based diagnostic companies, Zheijiang Digena Diagnostic Technology Co. Ltd (Digena) and Wuhan Dgensee Clinical Laboratory Co., Ltd (Dgensee), today announced a series of strategic collaborations that aim to bring nanopore sequencing technology and instruments to the clinical market in China.

As the world's most active emerging market, the influence of China's market on the entire global scientific instrument market is rising year by year, and revenue in China has become the most important part of the global performance of many multinational companies.

Rice University bioengineers said this week that they have demonstrated a low-cost, point-of-care DNA test for HPV infections that could make cervical cancer screening more accessible in low- and middle-income countries where the disease kills more than 300,000 women each year.

Quest Diagnostics said it completed its previously announced acquisition of Haystack Oncology.

Recently, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Notice on the public consultation of 2 standards.

Paige is enhancing its suite of AI-enabled solutions designed to support pathologists in the diagnosis of breast cancer while decreasing subjectivity and the tedium of manual analysis.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it has launched a voluntary pilot program intended to reduce the risks of laboratory-developed tests used to select patients for oncology therapies.

On March 30 2023, Kalorama Information indicates that the global IVD market is now over $124 billion, with operations in more than 20 key healthcare and medical areas, such as infectious disease immunoassays, POC, molecular microbiology, clinical chemistry, etc.