Infectious Disease Diagnostics – Products

Oxford Immunotec has announced that its T-SPOT®.COVID test will be used for T cell testing in the COV-AD (COVID infection in patients with Antibody Deficiency) study in collaboration with the University of Birmingham.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has announced the launch of the Reliance SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit (IVD) for European markets after having met the CE-IVD mark requirements.

Oxford Immunotec has announced that its T-SPOT® Discovery SARS-CoV-2 kit will be used for T cell testing in the UK Com-COV trial.

Avacta Group plc has announced positive data from the clinical validation of its AffiDX® SARS-CoV-2 antigen lateral flow test.

AnteoTech has announced that its EuGeni™ Reader and accompanying COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test (ART) have received Conformité Européene (CE) Mark registration as the company looks to progress with European distribution.

Mologic has announced that its rapid antigen self-test for COVID-19 has been selected by the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative launched by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The initiative aims to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of technologies for COVID-19 testing.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Artificial have announced a collaboration to develop an integrated and comprehensive software automation platform for Thermo Fisher’s standardized COVID-19 Testing Platform. The integration will result in increased testing throughput and support global healthcare initiatives.

Pioneering British biotech MicrosensDx has announced that its RapiPRO™ LAMP SARS-CoV-2 test has received CE Certification.

Promega Corporation has released XpressAmp™ Direct Amplification Reagents that facilitate RNA extraction-free sample preparation that is automation-friendly. With this innovation, laboratories testing for COVID-19 have a new tool that enables them to skip the potentially bottlenecked RNA extraction step of the workflow and move directly to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

PCR Biosystems have launched a range of IsoFast™ Bst Polymerase reagents for rapid, robust and sensitive DNA and RNA amplification.