Blood typing has become a routine test item of clinical blood transfusion department and clinical laboratory, which includes ABO blood group, Rh blood group, and cross-matching of blood test.

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

On July 6, 2021, Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) announced a strategic collaboration with GenomiCare Biotechnology in a move aimed to advance the application of the latest Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology into the clinical and scientific arena.

Quidel has issued a recall for certain lots of its Lyra brand SARS-CoV-2 tests due to the potential for false negative results in patient samples with relatively high amounts of virus.

Global life sciences leader Cytiva has acquired Intermountain Life Sciences, a manufacturer of high-purity water, buffers, and liquid cell culture media. Cytiva will use Intermountain’s manufacturing site in Utah to rapidly boost its liquid cell culture production by millions of liters.

On June 30, Sichuan Orienter Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and InTec PRODUCTS INC. applied for the Growth Enterprise Market and was accepted by Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted separate Emergency Use Authorization for molecular SARS-CoV-2 tests from Exact Sciences and BioGx, an immunoassay for detecting the virus from Bio-Rad Laboratories, and an at-home specimen collection kit from Everlywell.

NEW YORK – Qiagen said on Thursday that it has formed a global strategic alliance with Japan's Sysmex to develop and commercialize cancer companion diagnostics using Sysmex's Plasma-Safe-SeqS next-generation sequencing technology.

On the evening of June 30, it is said that Hotgen Biotech will increase by about ￥1.378 billion yuan to about ￥1.598 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 70546.05% to 81808.47% ,which is Compared with the same period of last year.

Recently, South Korean idol Song Joong Ki endorsed SD BIOSENSOR, an in vitro diagnostic company, sparking heated discussions in the IVD industry.

To date, no immunological data on COVID-19 heterologous vaccination schedules in humans have been reported. We assessed the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of BNT162b2 (Comirnaty, BioNTech, Germany) administered as second dose in participants primed with ChAdOx1-S (Vaxzevria, AstraZeneca, UK).

On June 21st, COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test (Colloidal Gold) COVID-19 Antigen Schnelltest (kolloidales Gold) Probe: Speichel (Spucktest) developed by Joinstar Biomedical Technology obtained the approval of the German Federal Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices to enter the self-testing list.