Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR and LSE: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”) is pleased to announce that followed an earlier Breakthrough Device Designation granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its OverC™ Multi-Cancer Detection Blood Test (MCDBT) in January 2023, its OverC™ MCDBT has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the China National Medical Products Administration(NMPA), which represents the only test globally that has received Breakthrough Device Designation from both US FDA and China NMPA.

U.S. genetic testing company Illumina (ILMN.O) has been ordered by EU antitrust regulators to sell cancer test maker Grail (GRAL.O) after it completed the deal before securing their approval.

Invitae (NYSE: NVTA), a leading medical genetics company, today announced it gained FDA market authorization for its Common Hereditary Cancers Panel.

Thermo Fisher Scientific said on Wednesday that it has obtained US Food and Drug Administration clearance for its BRAHMS CgA II KRYPTOR test, a chromogranin A (CgA) immunoassay for assessing tumor progression in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET) patients.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) recently signed a Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) with the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) outlining their collaboration to accelerate translational cancer research on the genomic landscape of Asian-prevalent cancers over the next two years.

Diagnostic healthcare company New Day Diagnostics has announced the approval of an agreement to acquire Epigenomics to provide accessible and innovative diagnostic solutions.

Novartis subsidiary Navigate Biopharma announced on Friday that it has formed a strategic collaboration with Becton Dickinson to help develop and commercialize companion diagnostics and clinical decision-making tools using flow cytometry.

Geneseeq Technology Inc. has announced that three of our next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based cancer genetic testing kits, GENESEEQPRIME NGS Tumor Gene Detection Kit (GeneseeqPrime ™), GENESEEQ Homologous Recombination Deficiency Detection Kit (GeneseeqPrime™ HRD), and GENESEEQ Blood Cancer Gene Detection Kit (Hemasalus™ DNA/Hemarna™ RNA), have obtained the European Union’s CE Mark approval.

South Korean next-generation sequencing-based diagnostic firm NGeneBio said on Friday that it has entered a collaboration agreement with Chinese sequencing platform company MGI Tech to expand the commercial access of NGeneBio's cancer testing products.

Wren Laboratories announced Thursday that it finalized a distribution agreement with Kindstar Globalgene Technology to distribute Wren's blood-based neuroendocrine tumor NETest throughout China.