Mentors International has inked an agreement with Co-Diagnostics HBDC to reduce the cost of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test in developing world. Pursuant to the terms of agreement, Mentors International will use its international ...
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Cepheid, a California-based medical device firm, has received market authorization from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its Xpert MTB/RIF test, a tuberclosis test. The regulatory agency approved following a de novo 510(k) ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has acquired a Switzerland-based vaccines company, Okairos, for €250m in cash to boost its existing vaccine platform technology expertise and to continue developing the next generation of vaccines. Under the ...
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Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Diagnosing diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in the developing world could be radically improved by a sensor attached to a mobile phone being developed by Australian researchers. Leader of CSIRO's Medical Devices Stream, Scott ...
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, is proud to accept its successful award to NHS Supply Chain’s National Microbiology Framework Agreement. NHS Supply Chain provides patient-focussed ...
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Janssen Therapeutics has obtained accelerated approval from FDA for Sirturo (bedaquiline) tablets as part of combination therapy to treat adult patients with pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The surrogate endpoint of ...
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The biotechnology and personalized medicine company, Epistem, has gained CE mark for its in vitro diagnostic medical device (CE-IVD), Genedrive Tuberculosis (TB) test. Epistem said the registration enables to place its TB test and ...
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Veredus Laboratories, a Singapore-based subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, has introduced a multiplexed molecular diagnostic platform for identifying the specific mycobacterium causing the infection and drug resistance. The VereMTB ...
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Janssen-Cilag International has submitted a Marketing Authorisation Application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking conditional approval to use the investigational drug bedaquiline (TMC207) as an oral treatment, to be used as ...
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Sequella has licensed its B-SMART technology to Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) to allow LabCorp to develop a new laboratory-based antibiotic susceptibility assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and to use the assay in the US ...
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Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and SRI International have won a second grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health, for the joint development of an ...
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Janssen Research & Development company has submitted bedaquiline (TMC207) new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval. Bedaquiline,an investigational drug administered orally,is used as part of ...
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Akonni Biosystems has won $280,784 grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a fully automated nucleic acid isolation instrument. With the grant, the company will initially use the sample preparation workstation to ...
Bamboo has a long and interesting history dating back more than 5, 000 years. The ancient Chinese used this versatile grass for many projects, including arrow making, construction, weaving, books, and paper. Archeologists working in the ...
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