Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global medtech leader, announced today it has completed its acquisition of Hillrom. Baxter paid $156.00 in cash for each outstanding share of Hillrom common stock for a purchase price of $10.5 billion (based on Hillrom share counts at closing).

Recently, Autobio's thyroid functional magnetic particle chemiluminescence series reagents obtained the EU IVDR CE certification issued by TüV SüD. This is the first series of Autobio’s products to obtain the EU IVDR CE certification.

The US Food and Drug Administration released a notice on Thursday that Meridian Biosciences' Revogene SARS-CoV-2 test is unlikely to be able to detect the Omicron variant.

Qiagen and Denovo Biopharma said on Thursday that they are collaborating to develop a blood-based companion diagnostic test to identify patients expressing a genomic biomarker who are likely to respond to Denovo's investigational DB102 treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Tumors are heterogeneous, which means that different parts of the same tumor can be genetically distinct. This phenomenon, known as intratumor heterogeneity, is steadily gaining in significance within the field of cancer research.

On December 8, Roche Diagnostics China (hereinafter referred to as "Roche") and SHAPHAR announced the opening of a new round of strategic cooperation.

A potentially game-changing Antigen Rapid Test (ART) technology to diagnose COVID-19 has been developed by scientists in Singapore.

Thermo Fisher Scientific said on Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted premarket approval to the company's Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic for Janssen Biotech's targeted lung cancer treatment amivantamab-vmjw (Rybrevant).

Dec. 8, 2021 -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPD), a leading global provider of clinical research services to the biopharma and biotech industry, for $17.4 billion.

UK molecular diagnostics company Genedrive said on Wednesday that its rapid molecular COVID-19 test has received CE marking.

To date, CRISPR enzymes have been used to edit the genomes of one type of cell at a time: They cut, delete or add genes to a specific kind of cell within a tissue or organ, for example, or to one kind of microbe growing in a test tube.

Since December 2019, the epidemic has raged all over the world. Affected by the epidemic, more than 1,400 China in vitro diagnostic companies are facing severe challenges. As of the end of November, 24 IVD-related companies have been successfully listed during the epidemic.

Zhejiang Orient Gene Biotech Co.,Ltd. invested US$5 million in Scotland, UK to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary ACCUBIO.LIMITED.UK. BGI Genomics Co.,Ltd. s IVD factory in Ethiopia has passed the Medical device-Quality management system-requirements for regulatory (ISO 13485:2016) .

FDA has granted another set of regulatory privileges under its breakthrough devices program. The latest batch is led by breakthrough designations for treatments of lung cancer and bone metastases that are in development at RefleXion Medical and Zetagen Therapeutics.

Scientists have for the first time obtained stem cells from livestock that grow under chemically defined conditions, paving the way for manufacturing cell cultured meat and breeding enhanced livestock.