Sysmex

The Clinitek Novus Automated Urine Analyzer uses dry-pad urine chemistry technology and a cassette test format to provide a variety of chemistry strip tests.

The company said it will look to obtain regulatory approval in additional countries to accelerate the analyzer's market introduction in Asia and Africa.

News items for the in vitro diagnostics industry for the week of June 29, 2020.

To enable the use of saliva in addition to other types of samples, Sysmex requested a change to a marketing approval it obtained in March.

Sysmex anticipates delivering the kit to Japanese medical institutions this month for diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Contributing to the Japanese diagnostic firm's higher revenues were increased instrument and reagent sales both domestically and internationally.

The partners aim to develop new diagnostic technologies and businesses, with a focus on diseases for which there are no established diagnostic methods.

Uppsala University spinout Astrego has developed a system to rapidly detect bacterial infection and antibiotic susceptibility in biofluid.

The reagent is used for the detection of cytokeratin 19 mRNA in surgically removed sentinel lymph nodes in order to diagnose lymph node metastasis.

The Nexus IB10 is a point-of-care platform that automatically separates plasma from whole blood for analyses with a range of different tests.