OraSure Technologies, a point-of-care diagnostic tests provider, announced that its OMNIgene ORAL (OME-505) saliva collection device, a product of its subsidiary DNA Genotek, has been authorised by Health Canada for use in molecular diagnostic tests for detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The move will facilitate the expansion of Covid-19 testing programmes in the country.
Mammoth Biosciences, a company that uses gene-editing technology Crispr for disease testing, announced that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with Agilent Technologies, an analytical instrumentation development and manufacturing company, to launch a CRISPR-based SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic solution. As per the partnership, the Agilent will offer its Bravo automation workstation and Mammoth its DETECTR BOOSTTM assay.
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Eurofins Technologies and Eurofins Genomics have announced the launch of two validated assays for detecting B.1.1.7 (UK) and B.1.351 (South Africa) variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within a short turn-around time. The GSD NovaType SARS-CoV-2 Detect & ID is a real-time RT-PCR test that detects the SARS-CoV-2 virus, along with the UK and South Africa variants.
Avacta, a biotherapeutics company, has collaborated with Bruker Corporation, an analytical instrumentation manufacturer, to evaluate the Affimer-based, bead-assisted mass spectrometry SARS-CoV-2 assay that it developed with Adeptrix, an analytical reagents and assays developer. The collaboration will assess the suitability of the test as an in-vitro diagnostic product for SARS-CoV-2 infection that is expected to be run on Bruker’s MALDI-TOF instruments.
