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Medela Reports Their Portable Medical Surgical and Airway Suction Devices Offers a Safer Alternative to Piped Vaccum Systems
Medela notes they have been used in Europe and worldwide. The company’s portable medical suction machines are designed to provide crucial suction and fluid removal during respiratory treatment provided with ventilators.
EKF Diagnostics: PrimeStore® MTM Novel Viral Transport Media Successfully Evaluated by Public Health England for SARS-CoV-2 Inactivation
EKF Diagnostics notes the PHE study [1] evaluated numerous commercially available reagents and laboratory formulations commonly used for viral inactivation protocols by public health agencies and research laboratories globally.
Swift Biosciences and BillionToOne Partner Together for Commercialization and Manufacturing of EUA Approved COVID-19 Test
Swift Biosciences notes: The BillionToOne COVID-19 test uses different sets of instruments and chemicals from existing COVID-19 tests, enabling labs to unlock a new set of unused capacity.
Vox Biomedical Receives NIH Award for Rapid COVID-19 Diagnostic Development
Vox Medical reports the award calls for a biomarker discovery effort to determine the exhaled breath molecular species most suitable for use as a COVID-19 biomarker and methods of capture that can be implemented within the safety paradigm governing COVID-19 testing.
2 of 3 Leading COVID-19 Vaccine Initiatives utilizing Generis’s Life Science Platform, CARA
The company reports the US-driven international initiative to support the rapid development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing with many promising efforts to move towards Phase 3 clinical trials.
Insilico Medicine Releases Pandomics, AI-powered Platform for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
The company started working on an engine for target identification back in 2014. Since then, the technology has been validated through several successful partnering initiatives with pharmaceutical companies and research organizations as well as through Insilico Medicine's own internal drug development programs.
HART KD a Highly Accurate, Artificial Intelligence-driven Blood Test for Kawasaki Disease
The company used their long-standing, certified laboratory partner, Myriad RBM, to conduct protein measurements on blood samples collected from children with Kawasaki disease and is developing commercial options for offering HART KD for children suspected of Kawasaki disease.
Agendia Presents New Data Demonstrating MammaPrint’s Clinical Utility in Treatment Decisions for Ultra-Low Risk Breast Cancer Patients at the European Society for Medical Oncology...
Agendia notes this study confirms findings from the STO-3 Trial, previously published in 2017 in JAMA Oncology, and continues to show that the use of MammaPrint to stratify patient populations could help prevent the overtreatment of breast cancer patients.
BioPorto Plans Initial Clinical Evaluation of gRAD-based Test for Rapid Detection of COVID-19 Virus
BioPorto notes it is designed to provide a qualitative result in under 10 minutes from a minimally invasive sample, and to be easily administered at the point of care, the test could provide a much-needed solution to help improve access to viral testing.