UK researchers find lateral flow devices identify infectious Covid-19
Researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK have found out that the rapid lateral flow tests could identify…
Researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK have found out that the rapid lateral flow tests could identify…
Covid-19 variants represent a confusing factor in the spread of the pandemic. From the UK and Brazil to South Africa, the US and now Germany, mutant strains of Covid-19 have…
Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed an agreement to acquire US-based Mesa Biotech, a molecular diagnostics company that developed rapid Covid-19 test kits, for $450m. Mesa Biotech developed a PCR-based rapid…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) are set to enter Phase II of a multi-phase…
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, have developed a new simple and rapid test that can measure mitochondrial DNA in the blood of a Covid-19…
Women’s health medtech specialist Hologic has hit the ground running in the new year, making two acquisitions in the first week of 2021. On 4 January, Hologic closed its acquisition…
The UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the use of Perspectum’s magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based technology, CoverScan MD, for mapping the effects of Covid-19 on various…