LabPulse.com staff writersPoint-of-Care TestingScout secures CARB-X grant to advance diagnostic test developmentScout, formerly Uh Oh Labs, will advance its point-of-care (POC) diagnostic test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with a new $1 million accelerator grant.April 22, 2024Research and DevelopmentFujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies confirms layoffsFujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies confirmed a restructure that will result in the layoff of 240 employees.April 19, 2024Mergers & AcquisitionsBruker to acquire NanoString for $392.6MNanoString has reached an agreement with Bruker in which Bruker will purchase substantially all of NanoString's assets for approximately $392.6 million in cash, as well as assume certain NanoString liabilities.April 18, 2024Trends and FinanceDermTech receives delisting warning from NasdaqMelanoma diagnostics company DermTech announced that it has received a delisting warning from Nasdaq.April 17, 2024CollaborationNightingale Health to open U.S. lab, collaborate with Englander Institute at Weill CornellPreventive healthcare company Nightingale Health will open a laboratory in the U.S. In addition, the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine has signed on as its first customer.April 17, 2024Trends and FinanceCo-Diagnostics opens manufacturing facility in UtahMolecular diagnostics firm Co-Diagnostics has opened a new manufacturing facility in South Salt Lake, UT, holding a ribbon-cutting event to inaugurate the facility on April 11.April 16, 2024Diagnostic TechnologiesVeracyte to share bundle of genomic classifier studies at AUA 2024Veracyte has announced that the American Urological Association's May meeting will feature nine sessions related to evaluations of its prostate cancer and bladder cancer genomic tests.April 16, 2024Diagnostic TechnologiesBabson adds hand-warming to blood testing mini-draws in Texas pharmaciesAustin, TX-based Babson Diagnostics said it has received positive feedback for its hand-warmer, which is used as part of a finger-stick blood sample collection device in retail pharmacies.April 16, 2024Trends and FinanceOraSure discloses cybersecurity breachOraSure Technology disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving data theft that occurred in late March.April 15, 2024Policy and RegulationEuropean Commission approves Illumina's plan to divest GrailThe European Commission has approved Illumina's plan to divest multicancer early detection test maker Grail under the European Union Merger Regulation adopted by the EC in October 2023.April 12, 2024Previous PagePage 3 of 341Next PageTop StoriesPCRQiagen partners with FBI on forensics assayQiagen has announced a collaboration with the FBI to develop a new assay to improve DNA quantification for use in forensics and human identification.ImmunoassaysUniversity of Florida researchers develop CRISPR-based assay for HPV detectionFDA ClearanceGeneoscopy receives FDA approval for CRC screening testLawsuitGerman court rules patent invalid in 10x infringement suit against NanoStringSponsor ContentVisit our Molecular Diagnostics Community