Yourgene

The company had a profit of £3.4 million, or £0.01 per share, for the year compared to a loss of £9.6 million, or £0.03 per share, the previous year.

Elucigene has been developing in vitro diagnostics for oncology and reproductive health, including tests for cystic fibrosis screening and prenatal fetal aneuploidy screening.

The company said its higher revenues were due in part to international performance including continued penetration of Middle Eastern and Asian markets.

Under the terms of the agreement, Yourgene will offer its NIPT products on Thermo's NGS instruments in Southeast Asia and pay off its debts to Thermo.

The company, which changed its name from Premaitha Health last month, saw a 73 percent increase in testing volumes during the first half of fiscal year 2018.

Quest Diagnostics and Oxford Immunotec Global announced this week that Quest has completed its previously announced acquisition of Oxford Immunotec's US laboratory services business.

Quest Diagnostics this week announced it is acquiring the outreach laboratory services of Marin General Hospital located in Greenbrae, California.

Guardant Health said this week that it closed an initial public offering of approximately 14.4 million shares of its common stock at $19 per share, raising gross proceeds of about $273.1 million.

The placing and subscription shares that are part of the offering are expected to start trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange later this month.

The company plans to use parts of the proceeds from the offering to pay for the recent settlement with Illumina.