Point-of-Care Testing
News on technologies and applications for point-of-care testing.
Mecwins Developing 'Highly Sensitive' Plasmonic Testing Tech for Laboratories, Point of Care
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The firm recently inked an agreement with Quidel to enable the codevelopment of its technology for testing in doctors' offices and other decentralized settings.
The test measures a panel of proteins in patient blood to determine if they have a bacterial or viral infection, or if they have a bacterial-viral co-infection.
OraSure Technologies Nabs $13.6M BARDA Funding
The funding will support OraSure's efforts to obtain 510(k) clearance and CLIA waiver for the InteliSwab rapid SARS-CoV-2 antigen test.
Kephera Diagnostics Wins $300K NIH Grant for Chagas Disease Test
The test will be designed in both laboratory-based and point-of-care formats to address the needs of clinical and field settings.
Geisinger Wins $5M NIH Grant to Develop Point-of-Care Genetic Diagnostic Tool
The proposed "High Impact Phenotype Identification System" aims to reduce time to diagnosis of 13 high-impact genetic conditions.