Fluidigm

The company's contract with the NIH offered $12 million total and after initial test verification, Fluidigm will receive approximately $11 million.

While the market ditched shares of many other diagnostics firms, analysts said the reaction was overblown, particularly in the case of Quidel and molecular diagnostics players.

Fluidigm's Advanta Dx SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay is an extraction-free saliva-based test to detect nucleic acid from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The seven technologies feature different methods, including CRISPR and microfluidics, and can be performed in many settings and with a variety of sample types.

Fluidigm's Biomark HD microfluidic platform will enable more than 180,000 real-time PCR tests to be run over the next 90 days to potentially support COVID-19 screening.

The consortium is developing a real-time PCR test for host detection assays targeting epigenetic signatures and viral RNA for early-stage monitoring of potentially infected individuals.

News items for the in vitro diagnostics industry for the week of March 2, 2020.

The International Panel Physicians Association has endorsed Qiagen's QuantiFeron-TB Gold Plus test for immigration medical screening for latent tuberculosis.