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1. COPAN Diagnostics Announces Another Giant Step In The Evolution Of Artificial Intelligence In Clinical Microbiology 1/19/2022

   On the heels of recent news of FDA clearance for Colibri™, automated colony picking instrument for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing in clinical Microbiology, today COPAN announced the North American launch of PhenoMATRIX® TAG, colony selection software which automatically chooses isolated colonies on plated media for picking.

2. Seegene To Launch New COVID-19 PCR Test With A Reduced Turnaround Time Optimized For Mass Testing 1/19/2022

   Seegene Inc. (KQ 096530), South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, announced today the upcoming launch of the Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2 Fast PCR Assay, which can deliver PCR results in just 60 minutes.

3. CliniSys Acquires HORIZON Lab Systems And Combines With Sunquest Information Systems To Create One Of The World's Largest Organizations Dedicated To Diagnostics And Laboratory Informatics 1/18/2022

   CliniSys is announcing the recent acquisition of HORIZON Lab Systems and the combination with Sunquest Information Systems, as CliniSys. This acquisition and Sunquest combination creates one of the world's largest organizations dedicated to diagnostic and laboratory informatics.

4. Diagnostics Pioneers Abacus Diagnostica, Kaivogen And Labrox Are Now Together Uniogen 1/18/2022

   Three Finnish life science experts – Abacus Diagnostica, a frontrunner in molecular testing and rapid PCR test systems, Kaivogen, a specialist in immunoassays and antibody tests, and Labrox, an innovator of high technology laboratory instruments and diagnostic readers – announced in September 2021 that they are joining forces to form a global diagnostics pioneer.

5. BiologyWorks k(now) COVID-19 Clinical Trial Matches 99.1% Accuracy To RT-PCR Tests 1/18/2022

   BiologyWorks, Inc., a digital healthcare platform company, today announced that a substantive clinical trial of its handheld, reusable molecular test for COVID-19 matched 99.1% accuracy to laboratory RT-PCR tests.

6. First Platform For Massively Multiplexed Single-Cell In Situ Spatial Genomics Now Broadly Available To U.S. Market 1/18/2022

   Vizgen, the life science company dedicated to improving human health by visualizing single-cell spatial genomics information, has today announced that the MERSCOPE Platform is now broadly available across the United States.

7. Fujirebio Europe Launches The RoboBlot Instrument, A Fully Automated Solution For INNO-LIA Score Assays 1/18/2022

   Fujirebio Europe announced today the commercial launch of the RoboBlot instrument, a closed system for the automated processing of the widely used INNO-LIA Score assays.

8. LumiraDx Lab Analysis Confirms Its COVID-19 Antigen Test Detects The Omicron Variant 1/14/2022

   LumiraDx (Nasdaq: LMDX), a next-generation point of care diagnostics company, today announced that results from ongoing testing and monitoring of COVID-19 variants show its SARS-CoV-2 Antigen test detects the Omicron Variant.

9. InteliSwab® COVID-19 Rapid Tests Detect Omicron At Same Level As Other Variants 1/13/2022

   OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), a global leader in point-of-care and home diagnostic testing and sample collection technologies, announced today that its InteliSwab® COVID-19 rapid tests detect the Omicron variant as effectively as they detect the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and other previous variants of concern, including Delta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma.

10. High Resolution Single Tube Reader 1/13/2022

    Ziath announce the Uno single tube reader – a powerful device packed with exciting features to make your sample management work with 2D barcoded tubes easier and faster.