The immunoassay market has been the main driven force for the development of the in vitro diagnostics industry in recent years.

Fujirebio Holdings, Inc. (President & CEO: Goki Ishikawa) and Sysmex Corporation (President: Kaoru Asano) today announced that they have signed an agreement for the mutual supply of reagent raw materials owned by both companies (“the Agreement”). The Agreement is based on a basic agreement on business collaboration in the field of immunoassay*1 which the two companies signed in October 2023.

Various automated immunoassay analyzers were applied in clinical lab using different principles, which offered great convenience to our daily work in the laboratory, with more stability and accuracy than manual operation.

The development of modern immunoassay benefited from the development of labeled immunological technology. The clinical problems, which classical immunoassay could not solve, can be solved by modern immunoassay.

Fujirebio Holdings, Inc. (President & CEO: Goki Ishikawa) and Sysmex Corporation (President: Kaoru Asano) today announced that they have entered into an agreement to expand their Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) partnership for Sysmex's Automated Immunoassay System HISCL™-Series to include the field of neurodegenerative diseases, following the discussion based on the Basic Agreement on Business Collaboration in the field of immunoassay signed in October 2023*.

China's in vitro diagnosis began in the 1980s. In the past years, the Chinese IVD industry has been following the trend of national reform and opening up and has made great achievements in the world. At present, China's IVD has developed into a complete industrial chain from reagent instrument system to raw materials and from the domestic market to the global market. Its products have covered all the subdivided fields of the industry and become one of the countries with the most complete product lines of IVD industry in the world.

Roche announced on Monday that its hepatitis B immunoassay has received CE marking and is available for use in countries accepting the regulatory designation.

Roche announced on Thursday it received CE marking for two serology tests for hepatitis E.

ARUP Laboratories said Friday its companion diagnostic to help identify which patients are eligible for treatment with a gene therapy for hemophilia A received CE marking under the European Union's In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR).

BioMérieux announced on Friday that it has obtained CE marking for an assay to detect two biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).