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

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, and Meaningful Insights Biotech Analytics (MiBA), an innovative healthcare technology company, today announced a unique partnership aimed at optimizing the use of biomarker testing and data analytics to advance precision medicine in patient care throughout the MiBA Network.

Personalis, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSNL) announced today agreements with long time collaborators Merck and Moderna that accelerate the advancement of the company’s business strategy. The company has received an investment from Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and separately has signed a multi-year extension with Moderna to utilize Personalis’ ImmunoID NeXT Platform® and technology for V940/mRNA-4157, an investigational individualized neoantigen therapy (INT), being jointly developed by Merck and Moderna.

From December 14 to 18, a delegation led by Lei Haichao, Director of China's National Health Commission, visited Japan to attend the 17th Tripartite Health Ministers’ Meeting and engage in a series of official activities.

Mainz Biomed N.V. (NASDAQ:MYNZ) (“Mainz Biomed” or the “Company”), a molecular genetics diagnostic company specializing in the early detection of cancer, announced today an agreement with Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX), a leading provider of diagnostic information services, to support commercialization of Mainz Biomed’s NextGen screening test for colorectal cancer.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim to pursue the regulatory approval and commercialization of the Guardant360® CDx liquid biopsy as a companion diagnostic (CDx) for zongertinib, an investigational covalent tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that selectively inhibits HER2 while sparing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative (DAC) announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with Janssen Research & Development and Danaher subsidiary Beckman Coulter Diagnostics to validate blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and Babson Diagnostics, a science-first health care technology company, today announced an expansion of fingertip blood collection and testing technologies for use by U.S. health systems and other large provider networks in settings like urgent cares, doctor offices and other ambulatory care settings.

Labcorp, a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, announces it has finalized its acquisition of select outreach laboratory services from Ballad Health. The sale of these lab services, combined with Ballad Health’s ongoing strategic relationship with Labcorp, aims to enhance patient care, expand access to advanced testing and improve efficiency for the health system and its patients.

South Korean diagnostic firm Noul said Wednesday that it has inked an agreement to launch its hematology and malaria testing tools in Europe through German lab chain Limbach Group.