T2 Biosystems said on Friday that it is collaborating with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to implement and evaluate the firm's T2Bacteria Panel in clinical settings.

South Korean liquid biopsy firm IMBdx said Thursday that it is expanding an ongoing collaboration with AstraZeneca under a project called PROSPER 2.0, which aims to improve access to targeted therapies for individuals with metastatic prostate cancer in markets outside the US.

Life sciences proteomics firm Seer on Wednesday announced an expanded collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Foundation Medicine, Inc., a pioneer in molecular profiling for cancer, today announced that it has entered a strategic collaboration with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to develop FoundationOne®Liquid CDx and FoundationOne®CDx as companion diagnostics in the U.S. market for selected marketed and pipeline treatments.

The major controlling party of Leadman, signed a cooperation agreement with GoBroad Health Group to build a research hospital project in Guangzhou Sino-Singapore Knowledge City.

OmicsEdge and Almaden Genomics said on Thursday that they have partnered on a service to analyze patient genomic data in clinical trials.

GenScript Biotech, a preeminent global provider of life sciences services, and Boan Biotech, an integrated biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacturing and commercialization of biologics, announced a collaboration for the development and production of GenCircleTM dsDNA, a small circular double-stranded DNA vector without resistance markers, a key ingredient in gene and cell therapy.

Pfizer and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced they have entered into a collaboration agreement to help increase local access to next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based testing for lung and breast cancer patients in more than 30 countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

On April 25-26, Yin Ye, CEO of BGI Genomics, and his delegation visited Serbia and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Serbian Ministry of Health on cooperation in public health and precision testing.

Werfen on Thursday announced a partnership agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific for worldwide distribution of the TCAutomation laboratory automation system as part of the HemoCell Specialized Lab Automation system for hemostasis diagnostic testing.