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ATTENTION: Due to the CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC, certain events are being rescheduled for a later date or altogether cancelled. Please check with the event organizer or website prior to planning for any forthcoming event.
14 Apr 2020 - 17 Apr 2020
KoreaLab 2020
16 Apr 2020 - 17 Apr 2020
India Lab Expo & Analytica Anacon India
06 May 2020 - 10 May 2020
29th Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE).

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Abbott Launches New Test that Detects Coronavirus in Just Five Minutes

Abbott (Lake Forest, IL, USA) has been issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the fastest available molecular point-of-care test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), delivering positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes. Read more
28 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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Rapid POC Screening Technology Uses Artificial Glycan Receptor to Detect Coronavirus in 20 Minutes

Iceni Diagnostics (Norwich, UK), a biotechnology company, is developing a new approach that identifies the virus not by its genetic code, which can mutate, but by using its reliance on chains of sugars which are constant and unchangeable. Read more
28 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
Image: Sensitest’s Corona Rapid test for professional use (Photo courtesy of Sensitest International)

New Rapid Coronavirus Test Gives Results in Just 15 Minutes

Sensitest International (Delfgauw, The Netherlands), has developed a new coronavirus test that can show whether a patient has the IgM or IgG antibodies of the coronavirus (Covid-19) within 15 minutes. Read more
28 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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UC San Diego Partners with Diagnostics Manufacturers for COVID-19 Testing; Begins Trial to Assess Antiviral Drug

The UC San Diego Health and University of California San Diego School of Medicine (La Jolla, CA, USA) has announced that the UC San Diego Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine (CALM), in a partnership with five leading in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, is significantly ramping up testing for COVID-19, projecting a capacity to complete 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within two to three weeks. Read more
28 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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Randox and Bosch to Launch Game-Changing POC Coronavirus Test

Global diagnostics company Randox Laboratories (Crumlin, UK) and leading technology manufacturer Bosch Healthcare Solutions GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany) will launch a game-changing point of care coronavirus test in April 2020. Read more
28 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
Image: Fulgent’s COVID-19 test (Photo courtesy of Fulgent Genetics, Inc.)

Fulgent Partners with MedScan to Launch Next Generation Sequencing-Based Test for Coronavirus

Fulgent Genetics, Inc. (Temple City, CA, USA), a provider of comprehensive genetic testing and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) solutions, has launched a NGS-based test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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Abbott Launches Molecular Test for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Abbott (Lake Forest, IL, USA) has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA for its molecular test for the identification of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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GenMark Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for ePlex SARS-CoV-2 Test

GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA, USA), a provider of automated, multiplex molecular diagnostic testing systems, has received the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the company’s ePlex SARS-CoV-2 Test. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
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Diazyme Announces Availability of COVID-19 Antibody Tests

Diazyme Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego, CA, USA) has announced the availability of two serological tests for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), namely the Diazyme DZ-Lite SARS-CoV-2 IgG and SARS-CoV-2 IgM CLIA test kits. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
Image: BD, BioGX Submit EUA Request to FDA for New COVID-19 Diagnostics (Photo courtesy of Becton, Dickinson and Company)

BD, BioGX Submit EUA Request to FDA for New COVID-19 Diagnostics

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD; Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) and BioGX Inc. (Birmingham, AL, USA) have submitted Emergency Use Authorization requests to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for new diagnostic tests that, if authorized, would increase the potential capacity to screen for COVID-19 (coronavirus) by thousands of tests per day. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
Image: Mesa’s Accula SARS-CoV-2 Test (Photo courtesy of Mesa Biotech)

Mesa Receives FDA EUA for 30 Minute POC Molecular COVID-19 Test

Mesa Biotech (San Diego, CA, USA) has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its Accula SARS-CoV-2 Test, which gives COVID-19 diagnostic results in 30 minutes. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus
Image: The LIAISON MDX platform (Photo courtesy of DiaSorin Inc.)

DiaSorin Receives BARDA Funding to Develop Rapid COVID-19 Test

DiaSorin Molecular LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DiaSorin Inc. (‎Saluggia‎, Italy), has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA for its Simplexa COVID-19 Direct kit. Read more
27 Mar 2020 | Coronavirus

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