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...Quest is running its laboratories 24 hours a day but there are “more specimens coming in every day than our capacity can handle”, said Mr Davis....
...Of these, the bulk was done by just two companies: Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America....
...Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer have been shown to work against the B.1.1.7 variant in laboratory tests....
...Quest Diagnostics, the largest laboratory company in the US, this week warned that there was “no way” the industry could expand molecular nasal swab testing capacity in time for the autumn, when demand is...
...PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, the gold standard of diagnostic sensitivity, cannot provide results in real time....
...The company specialises in medical imaging and laboratory diagnostics....
...The government hopes the three new laboratories being set up should help meet this need....
...Abbott’s new diagnostic test for Covid-19 could cut the wait for results down to as little as five minutes for a positive result and 13 minutes for a negative one....
...Abbott Laboratories, the US medical device company, has revised the terms of its planned $5bn-plus takeover of smaller rival Alere, ending a protracted legal battle between the two companies....
...Zoetis said it estimated the size of the veterinary diagnostic market at $3bn....
..., where he oversaw a contentious takeover by Abbott Laboratories last year....
...The latter denotes a bespoke drug manufactured specifically for an individual patient, like Novartis’ chimeric antigen receptor therapy (Car-T), which re-engineers a patient’s cells in a laboratory so they...
...In December, hackers infiltrated Quest Diagnostics, which boasts the world’s largest clinical lab database, and gained access to 34,000 patient records, including laboratory results....
...Mars, the pet food to chocolate conglomerate, has unveiled a $9.1bn deal to acquire VCA, an owner of animal hospitals and diagnostic laboratories in North America....
...Importantly, the deal gives Mars ownership of VCA’s reference laboratories business, which is used by 17,000 of North America’s animal hospitals, making it the largest in the region....
...Just 10 months after Abbott Laboratories announced with much fanfare its $5.8bn acquisition of diagnostic test provider Alere, the Chicago-based medical device maker is looking to walk away....
...Unless we have the proper tools — new drugs and diagnostics — we won’t go anywhere. We need to empower people in the community to have a massive scale-up of treatment....
...Abbott Laboratories, the US healthcare heavyweight, is extending its presence in diagnostic testing with the acquisition of Massachusetts-based Alere for $56 a share....
...The deal comes just months after Thermo snapped up Affymetrix for $1.3bn in a move that will help the company expand its array of laboratory equipment, which includes diagnostic tools for hospitals and mass...
...Shares in Alere , a provider of diagnostic tests, surged almost 45.5 per cent to $54.11 after industry heavyweight Abbott Laboratories agreed to acquire it for $56 a share....
...Here diagnostics are carried out in a surgery, clinic or a pharmacy and the patient waits a few minutes for results. This cuts out the need for a laboratory altogether....
...Other developers of companion diagnostics include Abbott Laboratories, Agilent Technologies, Myriad Genetics and Qiagen....
...Abbott Laboratories, the US healthcare heavyweight, was the latest to strike a deal after it announced on Monday it had agreed to acquire Alere, a diagnostic group, for $5.8bn....
...to digital diagnostics, among other subjects....
...It was associated with low-margin knee implants, surgical scalpels and laboratory tests that took days or weeks to deliver a result that, even then, might be wrong. But this has begun to change....
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