Vietnam's Gene Solutions develops multimodal liquid biopsy assay for cancer detection

Founded in Vietnam, Gene Solutions has developed a multimodal liquid biopsy based assay named Screening for the Pre...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australian startup Microba unveils next-gen human gut microbiome tests

Microba Life Sciences, a startup based in Australia, has announced that it’s next generation testing product range...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based iGene Lab launches whole exome sequencing service

Singapore-based molecular diagnostics lab group iGene Laboratory, a subsidiary of INEX Innovate, has announced the launc...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
NHRI and Singapore's KK Women's and Children's Hospital sign MoU to promote precision care for rare diseases

On February 15, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding ...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Chinese firm Tianlong introduces innovative PCR lab solution

China-based Tianlong launched its new product Panall 8000 All-in-one Molecular Diagnosis System, at Medlab Middle East 2...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
FIND and Indonesia Ministry of Health drive access to essential diagnostic tests

FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, and Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Republic of Indonesia has announced ...

February 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Thailand gives nod to Qvin Menstrual Blood Diagnostic Device

Qvin, a US-based biotechnology startup, has announced the regulatory (FDA) approval in Thailand for its Q-Pad technology...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | News
"Australia is poised to establish itself as a global life sciences hub"

How would you describe the assay and bioreagents market in Australia and New Zealand? What impact does the Assay Matrix ...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Invivoscribe appoints Masato Sasaki as General Manager of LabPMM, GK (Japan)

US-based firm Invivoscribe has announced the appointment of Masato Sasaki as General Manager of LabPMM GK, its refe...

February 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Genetic Technologies, Qiagen to establish Centre of Excellence facility in Australia

Australian firm Genetic Technologies Limited (GTG), a global leader in guideline-driven genomics-based tests in health, ...

February 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Guardant Health strengthens partnership with Korean startup Lunit to enhance cancer biomarker detection

South Korea-based startup Lunit, in partnership with leading precision oncology company Guardant Health in the US, has a...

February 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher unveils CE-IVD marked assay to detect treatment-resistant HIV-1 strains

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of its CE-IVD marked Applied Biosystems TaqPath Seq HIV-1 Genotyping K...

January 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
South Korea's NGeneBio expands to ASEAN precision diagnosis market

South Korean diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. is accelerating its expansion into the ASEAN precision diagnosis market. ...

January 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Atomo Diagnostics expands launch of novel blood based rapid pregnancy test in key markets

Australia-based Atomo Diagnostics has announced the signing of a new agreement with its long-term partner NG Biotech SAS...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Qiagen launches EZ2 Connect MDx platform for automated sample processing in diagnostic labs

Qiagen has announced the launch of EZ2 Connect MDx for use in diagnostic laboratories, making the in vitro diagnostic (I...

January 18, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Juniper Biologics partners with Caris Life Sciences for molecular profiling distribution in Southeast Asia

Singapore-headquartered Juniper Biologics has been granted distribution rights for Caris Life Sciences' molecu...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
Agilent acquires Avida Biomed to expand into high growth diagnostic markets

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the acquisition of US-based startup Avida Biomed, an early-stage life sciences c...

January 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
US FDA grants breakthrough designation for blood test to diagnose inaccessible brain tumours

Datar Cancer Genetics has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 'Breakthrough Device Desi...

January 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
US-based startup Alercell to launch DNA sequencing-based leukaemia diagnostic test

Alercell is all set to launch LENA Q51(R) in January 2023. A leukaemia diagnostic test based on sequencing DNA will dete...

December 30, 2022 | Friday | News
India bolsters vision to end TB by 2025 with cost effective diagnostic technology

Indian Oil Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (C...

December 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Sysmex's assay kit for detection of Alzheimer's

Sysmex Corporation has received manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for the HISCL β-Amyloid 1-42 Assay ...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Possible breakthrough in cardiovascular disease diagnostics for Southeast Asia

Neuome Peptides, a Singapore-based startup, with operations in India as well, has established an assay-development&...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Prenetics acquires ACT Genomics for $20 M

Hong Kong headquartered Prenetics Global is acquiring a majority stake in ACT Genomics Holdings Company, an Asia&nb...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
New Zealand explores at-home testing for cervical cancer screening

About 3,000 New Zealanders are being given the opportunity to take part in a new study where they can choose to have the...

December 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
(CE-IVD) LEADGENE® Indoxyl Sulfate ELISA Kit: Rapid Detection and Surveillance of Chronic Kidney Disease

What is indoxyl sulfate? Indoxyl sulfate belongs to protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs), which contain p-cresyl sulfate...

December 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Healthcare Consumerisation Driving the Demand for Home Diagnostic Innovations in Asia

One of the primary drivers of home diagnostics, apart from the growing chronic disease population, is the overload on th...

December 9, 2022 | Friday | Opinion
Olympus backs Japan govt's project for dissemination of endoscopic AI diagnosis in Vietnam

Olympus Corporation has announced their part in a project in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
NZ-based diagnostic startup Pictor raises $5 M for product development

New Zealand (NZ)-based startup Pictor, with operations in US and India, has announced a funding round to help accelerate...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops affordable and highly sensitive blood test for cancer

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a novel low-cost method of testing for cancer...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Sonic Healthcare acquires stake in Australian startup Microba Life Sciences for $17.8 M

Australian startup Microba Life Sciences has announced that leading medical diagnostics provider Sonic Healthcare&n...

November 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Lunit accelerates AI-powered medical imaging across major overseas channels

South Korea-based startup Lunit has signed a global distribution agreement with Indian firm CARPL.ai, an end-to-end heal...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore's Claritas HealthTech announces India operations focusing on AI assisted diagnostic tools

Singapore based Claritas HealthTech, a healthcare technology company specialising in advanced medical image enhancement ...

November 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan to develop first blood biomarker-based diagnostic workflow for dementia

Shimadzu Corporation, Eisai Co., Oita University, and Usuki City Medical Association have announced the commencement of ...

November 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Pictor, Rako Science bring improved access to COVID-19 antibody testing for New Zealand

Auckland-based Pictor, a global leader in immunodiagnostics, has announced that its PictArray SARS-CoV-2 IgG enzyme-link...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan commercialises world's first test for early-stage pancreatic cancer

Hirotsu Bio Science Inc. has announced the commercialisation of "N-NOSE plus Pancreas," the first next-generation "cance...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Taiwan's iXensor announces partnership with US-based Innova Medical Group

Taiwan-based iXensor has announced a partnership with US-based Innova Medical Group, a leading global scale-up platform ...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan introduces software for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy & macular edema

Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has introduced Point-of-Care AI-DR, the first artifici...

November 11, 2022 | Friday | News
New Zealand explores genomic sequencing to improve newborns' well-being

Researchers from the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute in New Zealand are about to harness the technology...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Codex Genetics to offer Guardant Health's precision oncology tests in Hong Kong and Macau

Hong Kong-based Codex Genetics has announced an exclusive collaboration with Guardant Health Asia, Middle East and Afric...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
EDAN unveils first molecular diagnostics analysis system in Thailand

EDAN Instruments, Inc. showcased its first molecular diagnostics analysis system, ClariLight CL30, at Medlab Asia &...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
China approves Ascendas microfluidics technology

Ascendas Genomics has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China for use of the...

October 15, 2022 | Saturday | News
Takara Bio, BioExcel Diagnostics to develop wide-coverage infectious disease detection panels

Takara Bio USA, Inc., a pioneering life science reagent and instrument company and wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-base...

October 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Telix Pharma adds new PET imaging radiotracers to GE Healthcare's portfolio

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceutical has announced a collaborative development and reseller agreement with GE Healthcare...

October 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Health Canada approves Illuccix for prostate cancer imaging

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced that Health Canada has approved Illuccix [kit for the preparation of gal...

October 14, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea explores AI support for prostate cancer diagnosis

South Korea-based startup Deep Bio Inc. has announced that it will sign trial purchase agreements with five Korean hospi...

October 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Waters announces €6 M clinical diagnostics R&D centre expansion in Ireland

Waters Corporation has announced a combined investment of up to €6 million with support from IDA Ireland to expand ...

October 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Taiwan-based startup Micronbrane Medical raises $4.5M

Micronbrane Medical has raised $4.5 million of investment in A round led by CDIB Capital International which operates on...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Sense and Abacus dx to distribute instrument-free molecular COVID-19 test in Australia & NZ

Global molecular diagnostics innovator Sense Biodetection has entered into a strategic agreement with Aba...

October 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Yourgene Health receives HSA approval for prenatal screening

Yourgene Health, a leading international molecular diagnostics group, has received Health Sciences Authority (HSA) appro...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Hong Kong develops integrated test for children with difficult-to-treat leukaemia

Children with relapsed acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) who develop drug resistance generally lack treatment options and ar...

September 29, 2022 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher gets US FDA approval for NGS-based CDx for cancer

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Dx Target Te...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand offers improved alternative to screen patients with poor gut health

Non-invasive sensors laid on the skin's surface to measure bioelectrical activity could offer a better alternative for p...

September 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops quick test to detect immunity against COVID-19 & variants

A team of scientists from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterpris...

September 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Australia identifies unique biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 acute infections, Long COVID

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University have successfully detected and quanti...

September 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Saudi-German Genomic Centre to open in Riyadh

Dammam Valleya (a semi-government investment company, solely owned by Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University in Damman, ...

September 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Leucine Rich Bio starts export of BugSpeaks to Thailand

Indian startup Leucine Rich Bio, South Asia’s first microbiome company and national startup award winner 2021 (Hea...

September 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Pilot programme to apply whole genome sequencing for routine cancer care in Korea

US-based Genome Insight, a cancer whole genome platform company, is launching a pilot programme in Ajou University Medic...

September 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Novo Holdings leads $50 M investment in India's MedGenome

Indian firm MedGenome has announced a $50 million investment led by Novo Holdings, an international leader in life scien...

August 30, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Sonde Health inks multi-year partnership with Koye Pharma for COPD diagnosis

US-based Sonde Health, a leading enterprise vocal biomarker company, has signed a multi-year agreement with Koye Pharmac...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
South Korean firm DxGen Corp lays global focus on diabetes point-of-care testing

US-based Precision Diabetes, Inc. and South Korea's DxGen Corp. have entered in an exclusive agreement in the US to laun...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
China's United Imaging Healthcare goes public

China's United Imaging Healthcare, a leading global medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment company, has annonced lis...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia launches world-first preventative DNA screening for cancer, heart disease risk

The nationally collaborative project, led by Monash University and supported by researchers and clinicians across Austra...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
India's Molbio Diagnostics launches Truenat RT-PCR Test for HIV 1/ HIV 2

Molbio Diagnostics, India’s leading in-vitro diagnostics company and inventor of the Truenat technology, has launc...

August 17, 2022 | Wednesday | News
JOYSBIO develops new monkeypox rapid tests

China's JOYSBIO, one of the world's leading manufacturers of lateral flow rapid test kits, has announced the development...

August 17, 2022 | Wednesday | News
USFDA approves Thermo Fisher's Oncomine Dx Target Test for lung cancer detection

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Oncomine Dx Targe...

August 14, 2022 | Sunday | News
Prenetics unveils at-home blood tests using painless, push-button collection device

Hong Kong-based startup Prenetics has announced the launch of Circle Snapshot, a variety of at-home blood tests that fea...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
WeTrade Group to sell monkeypox test kit globally

WeTrade Group, an emerging growth company engaged in the business of providing software-as-a-services (SAAS) and cloud i...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
LordsMed brings COVID-19 saliva-based rapid antigen test kit to India

LordsMed, the pharma division of Indian firm Lord's Mark Industries, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Sing...

August 2, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches first Hepatitis C elimination initiatives through a public-private partnership

In alignment with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s call to eliminate hepatitis C (HCV) by 2030, Singapore's H...

July 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Shimadzu lays focus on diagnostic aid technology for depression using blood tests

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation is participating in the project “Creating a System for Maintaining the Mental Hea...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
INEX Innovate backs Chinese University of Hong Kong for foetal medicine research

Singapore-based diagnostics developer and medical laboratory operator INEX Innovate has contributed an undisclosed sum t...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm unveils two new NURA health centres for cancer screening in India

Japanese firm Fujifilm Corporation has announced the opening of two new NURA health screening centres focusing on cancer...

July 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
Seegene launches world's first In-life PCR campaign in Vietnam

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, will work with test centre, LabHouse, to la...

July 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Malaysian Genomics forms partnership for expansion in Saudi Arabia

Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad, a leading genomics and biopharmaceutical specialist, has entered into a strat...

July 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
iGene Lab launches Monkeypox PCR test for South East Asian region

Singapore-based iGene Laboratory, the molecular diagnostics laboratory subsidiary of INEX Innovate, has announced the la...

July 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore accelerates integration of AI-powered solutions into clinical care

ASUS and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) have inked a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise ...

July 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
“Spending on TB control programmes had dropped to 2016 levels in 2020 and remains unchanged”

How is QIAGEN helping to reduce the growing burden of TB in APAC? QIAGEN promotes TB prevention (Test and Treat strateg...

June 30, 2022 | Thursday | Opinion
Seegene develops PCR test to detect monkeypox virus

Seegene Inc., South Korea-based molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has developed a PCR test to detect the mo...

June 29, 2022 | Wednesday | News
JOYSBIO develops antigen rapid test to detect Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5

As the SARS-COV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 make their way across the EU and the US, China-based Joysbio has dev...

June 27, 2022 | Monday | News
Ainos COVID-19 antigen self-test receives approval for sale in Taiwan

US-based Ainos, a diversified medtech company focused on the development of novel point-of-care testing, low-dose interf...

June 24, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan-based Fujirebio acquires ADx Neurosciences for €40 M

Japan's H.U. Group Holdings Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary Fujirebio Holdings, Inc., and Belgium-based ADx NeuroS...

June 24, 2022 | Friday | News
South Korea approves Agilent's diagnostic platform to identify NSCLC patients

South Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved the Agilent Technologies PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx as a co...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Exploring untapped potentials at the Asia-Pacific digital pathology market

The synergy of AI and digital pathology has opened a world of image-based possibilities that can transform disease diagn...

June 14, 2022 | Tuesday | Opinion
Health tech firm Annalise partners with Fujifilm Australia

Sydney based Healthcare AI firm annalise.ai has partnered with Fujifilm Australia for the distribution of its decision s...

June 8, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Us2.ai expands multi-modality echocardiography AI analytics reach

Us2.ai, a Singapore-based medtech firm has received CE Mark clearance for Us2.v1, a completely automated decision suppor...

June 8, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Parse Biosciences inks pact with Molecular Diagnostics Korea

US-based Parse Biosciences, a leading provider of scalable single-cell sequencing solutions, has announced a partnership...

June 7, 2022 | Tuesday | News
MiRXES opens Southeast Asia’s first industry 4.0 IVD manufacturing facility

MiRXES Pte Ltd, a Singapore-headquartered biotechnology company, and A*STAR spinoff, focused on s...

May 30, 2022 | Monday | News
Seegene unveils '$12 PCR testing' initiative to help end COVID-19 pandemic

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has unveiled a global initiative for ...

May 26, 2022 | Thursday | News
New Horizon Health partners with Prenetics to launch non-invasive colon cancer test

New Horizon Health and Prenetics has announced a strategic partnership to launch ColoClear by Circle, the "First Colorec...

May 24, 2022 | Tuesday | News
INEX Innovate set to launch ovarian cancer detection test in Southeast Asian markets

Known as a pioneer in Asia's women's and foetal health industry, Singapore-based diagnostics developer, I...

May 11, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Hitachi advances molecular diagnostics and precision medicine

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has entered into a strategic partnership with In...

May 10, 2022 | Tuesday | News
KYAN Therapeutics, Curie Oncology offer personalised cancer test in Singapore

KYAN Therapeutics (a Delaware Corporation headquartered in Singapore) teams up with Curie Oncology to offer its novel an...

May 10, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's iXensor receives strategic investment to expand mobile health biz globally

Taiwan's iXensor, the pioneer of mobile health, has announced that Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a multinational pharma...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Zymo Research invests in Singapore's Star Array to develop superfast PCR platform

US-based Zymo Research is making a strategic investment to acquire an interest in Star Array, a privately owned, biomedi...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea's Seegene unveils world's first commercialised '3 Ct' PCR assay

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has announced the development of the ...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Volition launches Nu.Q Vet Cancer test in Asia

VolitionRx, a multi-national epigenetics company developing simple, easy to use, cost effective blood tests to help diag...

April 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops COVID-19 detection platform by 'slowing down light'

A research group led by Professor Young Min Song of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea h...

April 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan's Kaneka releases new PCR detection kits for Omicron and Occult Omicron variants

Japan-based Kaneka Corporation has released a product that can simultaneously detect COVID-19 - Real-time PCR detection ...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Australia's Telix starts US trial

Australia's Telix Pharmaceuticals has announced first commercial doses of its prostate cancer imaging agent, Illuccix&re...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
US authorises first COVID-19 diagnostic test using breath samples

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first COVID-19 diagnosti...

April 15, 2022 | Friday | News

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