Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Alydia Health, BD, Dreamed Diabetes, Sight Sciences.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 54gene, Ascyrus Medical, Cryolife, Ehave, Feinstein Institute, Illumina, Infosys, Kaleidoscope Innovation, Novacyt, Ocular Therapeutix, Organovo, Orthopaedic Innovation Centre, Precipio, T2 Biosystems.
Detectachem Inc. has scored an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. FDA to market a new molecular RNA test kit for SARS-CoV-2 that provides color-coded results in about 30 minutes.
While the emergency use authorization (EUA) the FDA granted Aug. 23 for convalescent plasma remains a political talking point, the agency moved ahead Sept. 2, issuing an updated, immediately effective guidance on the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients in ongoing clinical trials, on an expanded access basis or under the EUA.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: A simple point-of-care COVID-19 test; A deep-learning method to predict AMD risk; AP-1 and antidepressant action; Orasure collection device included in Miradx EUA.