A new public-private consortium is collaborating on a project whose chief objective is an FDA-qualified composite biomarker for diagnosing nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Biodesix isn’t looking to just be another company with lung cancer detection tests. It wants to be the lung cancer detection company. And with its most recent acquisition, the Boulder, CO-just might achieve that goal. ..

Biological Dynamics is fighting to take its diagnostic platform to the next level. And the San Diego-based company said it recently received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to help it in its mission.

ArcherDX is bringing it up a notch through a new collaboration with Ayala Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage precision oncology company.

At the Massachusetts institute of technology researchers have invented a sensor that can speed up the process of diagnosis of sepsis recently held in Berlin...

RNAi therapeutics firm Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and consumer genetics firm 23andMe will offer free genetic test kits to first-degree family members of 23andMe customers who have a TTR variant known to cause hereditary amyloidosis.

Illumina will bring its genomics startup incubator to the UK next year.

The Parkinson's Foundation and Fulgent Genetics announced recently that they have begun a collaboration on a new genetic testing initiative for Parkinson's disease patients.

Abbott recently said that its Diagnostics business revenues grew 2 percent year over year in the second quarter, while its total revenues were up 3 percent.

PathogenDx has entered into a strategic partnership with Nationwide Laboratory Services for fungal testing of dermatology and podiatry samples.

Danaher recently reported a 4 percent year-over-year increase in its second quarter revenues, which included a 6 percent rise in life sciences segment revenues and a rise of almost 5 percent in its diagnostics segment.

Life sciences and health data startup Seer announced recently that it has raised $17.5 million in a series C financing round.

Danaher recently announced that the group will establish an independent company, ENVISTA HOLDINGS CORPORATION (referred to as Envista), and will make an initial public offering in the second half of 2019.

Quanterix announced after the close of the market on Wednesday that it has inked an agreement to acquire privately held UmanDiagnostics for $22.5 million.

Illumina has filed patent infringement suits in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey relating to BGI's sequencing instrumentation and chemistry, the company said today.