Siemens rolls out Atellica in Australia
December 2018—Australian health care company Primary Health Care has joined forces with Siemens Healthineers to deploy more than 70 Atellica Solution immunoassay and clinical chemistry analyzers.
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Webinar presenter Samuel Caughron, MD, FCAP, Chief Strategy Officer, MAWD Pathology, Medical Director of Laboratory, AdventHealth Kansas City, Medical Director of Laboratory, Labcorp, President, Member & Director, Pathology Ventures, LLC
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Join leading pathology experts, Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, for a webinar exploring potential challenges in HER2 IHC testing for breast cancer, emerging evidence supporting digital and computational pathology as assistive tools for pathologists in HER2 IHC assessment, and practical considerations for real-world implementation and adoption.
Webinar presenters Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Anatomical Pathology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist Member and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Machine Learning, and Translational Pathology, Scientific Director, Analytic Microscopy Core Chair, Women in Oncology Executive Board Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12 PM-1 PM ET
Hear an expert pathologist discuss the role of HER2 IHC testing and scoring in solid tumors including endometrial, ovarian, cervical, bladder, non-small cell lung, colorectal, and biliary cancers
Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, MSPT, Baylor Sammons Cancer Center; Fulgent Genetics; Texas Cancer Interception Institute
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SelectMDx improves prostate biopsy decision-making
December 2018—MDxHealth announced that the journal Urology Practice has published a study demonstrating the clinical utility of SelectMDx, a noninvasive liquid biopsy test to identify patients at increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer, in guiding initial prostate biopsy decision-making.
Validate CM2 kit for Ortho Vitros
December 2018—LGC Maine Standards released its Validate CM2 linearity and calibration verification kit for Ortho Vitros analyzers.
Blood culture kit
December 2018—Magnolia Medical Technologies launched its new Best Practice Blood Culture Kit. The kit, developed in partnership with Aero-Med, includes the Steripath Gen2 Initial Specimen Diversion Device, two blood culture bottles, one ChloraSep antiseptic skin prep, and two alcohol prep pads.
Qiagen RNA-seq library prep solutions for NGS
December 2018—Qiagen launched its QIAseq FastSelect RNA Removal Kit, which allows rapid selective removal of RNA classes from any sample, enabling researchers to attain high-quality, reproducible RNA sequencing results.
Study: Guardant360 outperforms tissue biopsy
December 2018—A prospective study in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer has demonstrated that the blood-based Guardant360 assay, developed by Guardant Health, identified clinically actionable mutations in nearly twice as many patients as tissue biopsy alone.
Lung cancer mutation detection kit
December 2018—Precipio launched a new ICEme kit using the company’s proprietary Ice-Cold PCR technology. The kit provides physicians with the ability to use a liquid biopsy to identify patients eligible for tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapies through analysis of tumor DNA for these EGFR mutations.
Henry Ford Health partners with Sakura Finetek
November 2018—Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System Pathology and Laboratory Medicine announced a research and development partnership with Sakura Finetek USA to increase the automation level of its core anatomic pathology laboratories.
Qiagen partners with DiaSorin, NeuMoDx
November 2018—Qiagen has introduced an automated, CE-marked workflow for its Quanti-Feron-TB Gold Plus Blood Collection Tubes and a novel DiaSorin Liaison Test on DiaSorin’s Liaison systems. The launch offers Liaison customers high-throughput detection with QFT-Plus as part of the system’s broad menu, and QFT-Plus users will gain an option for full automation of laboratory handling to support TB control efforts. Customers using the new latent TB detection workflow for Liaison systems will purchase the detec-tion components from DiaSorin and the blood collection tube kits from Qiagen. The test is available in Europe and other markets, with an expected U.S. release in 2019 and in China in 2020. In a separate release, Qiagen and NeuMoDx Molecular announced a strategic partnership to commercialize two fully integrated systems for automation of PCR test-ing. Under the agreement, Qiagen will initially distribute the NeuMoDx 288 (for high throughput) and NeuMoDx 96 (for mid-throughput) in Europe and other markets outside of the United States; NeuMoDx will cover the U.S.
Binding Site antigens, antibodies
November 2018—Binding Site’s Immunologicals Group has introduced highly purified Borrelia and chikungunya glycoprotein antigens for use in IVD manufacturing and research applica-tions and as a component within solid phase ELISA-based immunoassay test procedures.