QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of two new tools for designing and ordering custom solutions that can be used to support microbial analysis of bacterial, fungal and viral targets.

TÜV SÜD said recently that it has certified a companion diagnostic manufactured by Roche under the EU's new In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation, adding it is the first such certification for a CDx.

A new research portal from software developer Nference and Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutica has identified several new expression mechanisms for COVID-19 and the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly disease.