San Diego-based diagnostics firm CorDx said on Thursday that it has obtained CE-IVD marks for a PCR test and a lateral flow test for monkeypox.

On August 17, AutoBio Diagnostics released its first-half results of 2022. The company achieved CNY 2.070 billion revenue by the end of June, with a year-on-year increase of 23.41%. The net profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 534 million, increasing 29.28% than the last year.

French diagnostics firm Eurobio Scientific said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Genome Diagnostics, also known as GenDx, for €135 million ($137.2 million) in cash.

Agilent Technologies announced after the close of the market Tuesday that its fiscal third quarter revenues grew 8 percent year over year, topping the consensus Wall Street estimate.

Recently, four products of Tianlong Science and Technology, including E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes DNA detection kits, have obtained EU CE certification.

Illumina and the Minderoo Foundation said on Tuesday that they have signed a partnership to commit A$40 million ($27.8 million) towards sequencing DNA in marine systems.

Ginkgo Bioworks reported after the close of the market on Monday that its second quarter 2022 revenues grew 231 percent year over year, driven by biosecurity service revenues.

August 11, the Second Roche Pan-Tumor Precision Diagnosis and Innovation Ecology Forum was officially opened at Roche Pharma China Shanghai Campus, where participants discussed solutions for pan-tumor precision diagnosis and treatment.

Becton Dickinson announced on Monday that it has inked a deal with Accelerate Diagnostics to sell that firm's Accelerate Pheno system and the Accelerate Arc module for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

The life science group Sartorius, through its French listed subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Albumedix Ltd. from private investors.

Kingmed and Cephei China dsigned a strategic cooperation agreement in Guangzhou to jointly promote the accurate diagnosis of clinical infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hospital-acquired infection, drug-resistant bacterial infection, and carry out long-term in-depth cooperation.

Guardant Health and Thermo Fisher Scientific said on Friday that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted premarket approvals for their respective next-generation sequencing assays as companion diagnostics to Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan)

Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said on Friday that they have launched a new large-scale human genome sequencing research project with New York-based biotechnology company Regeneron.

According to the news on August 8, Beijing Savant Biotechnology Co., ltd. (Stock Code No.: 873748) was listed on the New OTC Market.

Lucira Health announced on Thursday that it has received authorization under an interim order from Health Canada to market the Lucira COVID-19 & Flu Test for emergency use.