inflammatory bowel disease

The firm said that the new funds will enable it to build on the continued commercial expansion of its first product, PredictSure IBD, in the coming months.

Nestlé Health said that employees of Prometheus are becoming employees of Precision IBD, with the exception of those working in its point-of-care diagnostic business.

The test uses turbidimetry to measure levels of fecal calprotectin, a neutrophilic protein biomarker of intestinal mucosal inflammation.

Life Genomics will distribute Luxia's 1test1 test in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway. The test leverages sequencing technology to analyze the 16s RNA gene.

The diagnostic test, IBS-smart, which measures antibodies that are elevated in patients with post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome, is already available to physicians in the US.

The test is a 15-biomarker quantitative PCR panel used to stratify patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis based on the severity of their illness.

The device is designed to be used with the Inova Diagnostics' Quanta Flash assay for the detection of fecal calprotectin in human stool samples.

The assay can be used in conjunction with other laboratory and clinical findings to differentiate IBD from irritable bowel syndrome, the firm said.

The fully automated, random access calprotectin assay can help clinicians differentiate irritable bowel disease from irritable bowel syndrome.