A newly finalized guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) helps manufacturers understand how to use near-infrared (NIR)-based analyses in evaluating drug attributes.

DiaSorin said on Friday that its second quarter revenues rose 20 percent year over year, driven by strength in molecular diagnostic test sales.

Quidel has issued a recall for certain lots of its Lyra brand SARS-CoV-2 tests due to the potential for false negative results in patient samples with relatively high amounts of virus.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted separate Emergency Use Authorization for molecular SARS-CoV-2 tests from Exact Sciences and BioGx, an immunoassay for detecting the virus from Bio-Rad Laboratories, and an at-home specimen collection kit from Everlywell.

Roche announced recently that its RT-PCR-based Cobas SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid test for use on the Cobas Liat system has received Emergency Use Authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration.

A new antibody testing study examining samples originally collected through the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program found evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in five states earlier than had initially been reported.

On June 13, local time, G7 summit closed in Cornwall, England. According to the Global Times previously reported, Euro news reporter Jack Parrock (Jack Parrock) posted a picture on social media and found that the lateral flow COVID tests we have to do every day at G7 summit are “made in China”.

On May 28, the website of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the "General Information on Adverse Reaction Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Vaccination" jointly published by the center and the National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center.

On May 11, BioPerfectus officially announced that their COVID-19 test kit for B.1.617 has been successfully developed.

Normally, it takes 10-15 years to develop a vaccine because of the complexity of vaccine development. The previous record was a mumps vaccine, which took four years to develop.