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PureLab, part of PureHealth, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Baynounah Gene Solutions to explore opportunities for collaboration across diagnostics innovation, synthetic biology, molecular sciences, and research and development initiatives in the UAE.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced at the 2026 BIO-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston that the QIAGEN Digital Insights bioinformatics business and its curated knowledge bases and bioinformatics expertise will be integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform to help researchers use AI more effectively in drug discovery.

AstraZeneca and Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific today announced a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to help advance digital pathology capabilities and elevate cancer care across nine Asia markets, a first in the region. This landmark collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered digital and computational pathology through educational and training initiatives and improve biomarker testing in breast and lung cancer.

Stay up-to-date with the latest happenings in the rapidly evolving field of In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) in China.

Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced an expanded collaboration with Epic, the nation's leading electronic health record (EHR) supporting hospitals and health systems. Through the collaboration, Labcorp's full test menu will be available through Aura, Epic's unified platform for ordering and receiving lab results. The integration will drive meaningful operational efficiencies, streamline lab ordering for clinicians and care teams, and improve access to diagnostic innovation for hospitals and health systems using Epic nationwide.

Stay up-to-date with the latest happenings in the rapidly evolving field of In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) in China.

Lucent Diagnostics, a brand of Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), today announced a collaboration with Tempus AI Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM), a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine, to broaden access to a novel blood-based biomarker panel designed to improve detection accuracy for Alzheimer’s disease. Through the agreement, Tempus AI will build a Tempus Next care gap program for Alzheimer’s disease blood-based biomarker testing, with the LucentAD® Complete multi-biomarker blood test becoming available for neurologists to order on the Tempus clinical ordering platform.

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Google Cloud today announced a landmark partnership to enhance Merck’s digital backbone as an AI-enabled enterprise. This multi-year investment, valued at up to $1 billion, will deploy an agentic platform across Merck’s research & development (R&D), manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions – and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams to deploy Google Cloud’s most sophisticated AI, including Gemini Enterprise.

Cepheid, a Danaher company and a leader in molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company delivering a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology for real-time genomic analysis, today announced an expansion of their partnership to develop a workflow for rapid bacterial and fungal pathogen identification. Following a successful phase one collaboration announced at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Global 2025, the companies are advancing to the next phase of development, building on a promising beta solution already in use by researchers.