Different medical institutions have selected different imported and domestic brand instruments: 38 domestic and 58 imported.

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Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS), a leader in cancer diagnostics, today announced the launch of the Cancerguard™ test, a new multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood test that is now available as a laboratory-developed test (LDT) in the United States. Cancerguard is the first MCED test commercially available that analyzes multiple biomarker classes to help detect a wide range of cancers, including those that often go undiagnosed until later stages when treatment options are limited.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers present in urine, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. This approach could significantly reduce the need for invasive, often painful biopsies, they say.

US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and will lay off more than 100 scientific staff, as the industry accuses ministers of making the UK uncompetitive and paying too little for medicines.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced it has reached a strategic agreement with LabFlorida/SunDx Labs to provide residents of senior living communities access to Guardant Shield™, the first blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a primary screening option for colorectal cancer (CRC). As part of the agreement, LabFlorida will serve as the exclusive distributor to senior living communities throughout Florida. LabFlorida/SunDX provides premier concierge-style lab testing, tailored specifically for assisted and independent living and homebound patients.

Siemens Healthineers AG has been holding exploratory discussions with some of the largest private equity firms about a potential sale of its diagnostics segment, according to people with knowledge of the matter said.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has achieved CE-IVDR certification for its full portfolio of QIAstat-Dx syndromic testing systems and panels, including an expanded Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) Panel that sets a new benchmark in the diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) infections.

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher company and a leader in global clinical diagnostics innovation, today launched the industry's first fully automated Brain-derived Tau (BD-Tau) research use only (RUO) immunoassay test. Access BD-Tau, along with Beckman Coulter Diagnostics' expanding portfolio of neurodegenerative disease RUO assays, is available for use on the groundbreaking DxI 9000 Immunoassay Analyzer and Access 2 Analyzer. This portfolio of assays enables precision medicine research on clinical-grade platforms for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases and includes p‑Tau217, NfL, GFAP and APOE ε4.

Altesa BioSciences, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to preventing and treating rhinovirus infections, one of the leading causes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma exacerbations, today announced a partnership with bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, to utilize the BIOFIRE® SPOTFIRE® respiratory solution as its core point-of-care diagnostics platform at U.S. sites for Altesa’s upcoming Phase 2B clinical trial.

Epigenetics firm VolitionRx and Werfen said Tuesday that they have signed a licensing and commercialization deal covering the use of Volition's antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) test with Werfen's analyzers.

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced a strategic partnership with PathGroup, one of the nation’s leading partners to physicians, hospitals, and healthcare networks nationwide, to significantly expand the reach of Guardant’s FDA-approved Shield™ blood test. The partnership will bring Shield to more than 250 hospitals and health systems, over 15,000 PathGroup-affiliated physicians across 25 states, and allow more patients to benefit from Guardant’s industry-leading Shield blood test for early cancer detection through PathGroup’s large network of EMR hospital integrations and phlebotomists. More than five million patients each year receive testing through PathGroup.