RECENT NEWS

The European Commission’s Proposal to amend the transitional provisions of the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) has now been formally adopted by the Council of the European Union.

Ibex Medical Analytics, the University of Nottingham and a consortium of NHS Trusts, have been announced as the winners of the UK Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, recognising the deployment of Ibex's Galen Breast solution across five NHS trusts and delivering improved breast cancer diagnosis and laboratory efficiency.

Weaknesses in the United States laboratory system, which were illuminated during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscore a need for policy changes to improve the country’s infectious disease response, according to a new analysis by a Weill Cornell Medicine investigator.

PerkinElmer has launched the EnVision Nexus system, its fastest and most sensitive multimode plate reader to date, designed for demanding high-throughput screening (HTS) applications and to accelerate drug discovery efforts.

Cherwell, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, has published the findings of an investigative study suggesting that prepared media plate choice can affect the accuracy of microbial air sampling.

Healthcare software firm Sophia Genetics has entered into a new partnership with Qiagen that will pair QIAseq reagent technology with the Sophia DDM platform to enhance tumour analysis through next-generation sequencing (NGS).

The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has welcomed the publishing of the results of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee inquiry on managing NHS backlogs and waiting times.

Contracting the monkeypox virus (mpox) while pregnant can cause Congenital Mpox Syndrome, placental infection, and stillbirth, according to an article from the scientific journal published by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).

PathGroup, one of the largest providers of anatomic, clinical, digital, and molecular pathology services in the United States, has chosen digital pathology firm Proscia’s Concentriq Dx software platform.

The NHS workforce is more diverse than at any other point in its history, according to an annual report into race equality across the health service.

The 2023 England Rare Diseases Action Plan, published by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on Rare Disease Day - 28 February, aims to make sure people receive faster diagnosis and specialist care for rare diseases.

The full programme of lectures taking place at this year’s IBMS Congress is now available on the event’s website.

Clarapath, a robotics company aimed at catalysing change in the way pathology laboratories process human and animal tissue, has announced the acquisition of digital pathology company Crosscope.

Canon Medical has extended its Enterprise Imaging (EI) suite of solutions to include pathology through its partnership with Tribun Health. This provides new capability for healthcare organisations to efficiently include pathology into their enterprise imaging plans as part of their precision informatics roadmaps.

ViroStat has just released a number of monoclonal antibodies to the canine coronavirus. These new antibodies are specific to the nucleocapsid of the virus and do not cross react with other canine viruses. These antibodies form pairs for the rapid detection of the virus by immunoassay.

CN Bio, a leading organ-on-a-chip (OOC) company that designs and manufactures single-and multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS), has announced the commercial launch of the PhysioMimix Single-organ Higher Throughput (HT) System.

Genomics England has completed installation of an enterprise imaging system that will help to support a world-pioneering initiative for cancer research. The programme is linking whole genome sequencing, pathology and radiology data, in what has been described as the world’s largest multimodal cancer research platform.

INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipetting platforms are being used to streamline the liquid handling steps involved in antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), contributing to the early detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and helping to direct patients onto the appropriate care pathway as soon as possible.

Mologic, the US subsidiary of Global Access Diagnostics (GADx), has announced that its proprietary COVI-Go SARS-CoV-2 Ag Self-Test received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-counter home use.

Veterinary diagnostics firm Enalees has announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Germany and the appointment of Philip Hausen as general manager for the Germany-Austria-Switzerland (DACH) region.