Manila Standard

Bringing healthcare closer to Bantayan Island through point-of-care testing

Photos by Mark Tedoso For many Filipinos living in geographically isolated communities, accessing healthcare often means hours of travel, expensive ...

Roche receives FDA clearance for the cobas BV/CV assay, enabling fast and highly accurate vaginitis diagnosis

The new PCR test uses clinician-collected or clinician-instructed, self-collected vaginal swab specimens to simultaneously detect organisms associated with Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and ...

Taylor Farms lettuce tests negative for cyclospora, Mexican officials say

Mexico's health ministry said July 23 that test results of Taylor Farms lettuce samples were negative for cyclospora, the ...
KFGO

Lettuce samples at Taylor Farms negative for cyclospora, Mexican authorities say

Mexico's health ministry said on Thursday that results ​of its studies ‌of lettuce and water samples from U.S. supplier ...
News-Medical.Net

Optimizing 16S rRNA sequencing workflows

Microbiome sequencing has a reputation issue. From the outside, it appears to be one of modern biology's most powerful tools: ...

Seegene, Inc.: Seegene USA Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Multiplex PCR Assay, Advancing Differential Diagnosis of HSV-1&2, VZV, and Monkeypox Virus for ...

Seegene USA's Allplex HSV-1&2/VZV/MPXV Assay receives Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) The multiplex real-time PCR assay ...
Pharm Exec

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Seegene’s Multiplex PCR Assay

EUA marks the first U.S. multiplex PCR capable of differential detection of HSV-1, HSV-2, VZV, and MPXV from a single specimen. Overlapping lesion morphology makes sequential single-pathogen testing ...
Brown University

Researchers develop automated system to accelerate outbreak detection and disease surveillance

New workflow developed by Brown University researchers compresses hours of manual lab labor into a single automated process, ...

Seegene Launches Industry's First Global Million Clinical Study to Shape New Disease-Specific Testing Standards

Seegene today announced the launch of the Global Million Clinical Study (GMCS), aiming to evaluate the clinical utility and potential impact of comprehensive syndromic PCR testing approaches using ...
Medical Device Network

FDA clears Visby Medical’s at-home Covid-19 and Influenza PCR test

Visby claims that its new test is the first at-home PCR assay for multiple respiratory viruses. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock.com Visby Medical’s over the counter (OTC) combination PCR test for ...
BioTechniques

Soil searching: new dPCR ‘DNA test’ roots out plants’ subterranean secrets

“It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil samples, providing an invaluable insight into plant biomass and carbon ...