Madeleine Johnson

A home-collected dry swab protocol showed 100 percent sensitivity and 99.4 percent specificity versus extraction-based RT-qPCR.

The fever sample collection is an extension of an offering from FIND allowing diagnostics developers to access carefully curated sample collections.

The new guidelines include recommendations for molecular testing in suspected cases of Mycoplasma genitalium and bacterial vaginosis.

The system concentrates pathogens from positive blood cultures into a so-called liquid colony that can be used in ID/AST workflows.

The tool combines geographical data on viral mutations with an easy-to-use interface to check whether primers may be affected.

The team and its partner SpectraPass are creating an assay with the intent of obtaining Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration.

Inito is among a handful of diagnostics startups who have begun adding an ovulation confirmation target to fertility testing systems.

The Hopkins team expects to spinout a company soon in order to commercialize the technology in the next two to three years.

The firm expects to soon carve out a share in the rapidly expanding point-of-care, infectious disease, molecular diagnostics market.

Miniaturized sample-to-answer devices in development hint at an evolving molecular diagnostics landscape but launch timelines for these platforms remain unclear.