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Twist Bioscience, Biotia Nab FDA EUA for Hybridization-Based NGS SARS-CoV-2 Assay

The hybridization-based test may provide better detection of emerging COVID-19 variants of concern, due to a higher tolerance for probe mismatches than in PCR.

Avida Biomed Developing Hybridization-Based Methylation Sequencing Panels for Cancer Dx

The firm touts a new hybridization probe design, which it says will enable small, focused panels that reduce sequencing costs and assay time.

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for GenMark Coronavirus Assay

The ePlex SARS-CoV-2 Test is exclusively for use on the company's ePlex sample-to-answer system, which has a global installed base of more than 500 as of the end of 2019.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, UCSF, Stanford Partner to Boost Bay Area Coronavirus Testing

The partners' "COVID-19 task force" will invest in ePlex molecular testing platforms from GenMark Diagnostics to quadruple UCSF's testing capacity.

Coronavirus Test From GenMark Diagnostics Submitted to FDA for Emergency Use Authorization

The firm shipped research-use-only tests last week to key customers to validate the assay design using clinical samples.