Starting from November 30, 2024, ordinary passport holders from 38 countries can be exempted from visa to enter China and stay for no more than 30 days for business, tourism, family visit, exchange and transit purposes. 

Database building is a link to high-throughput sequencing.

The miniaturization of fluorescent PCR instruments is also a trend. Small PCR cyclers are portable and realize mobile detection.

Stay up-to-date with the latest happenings in the rapidly evolving field of In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) in China.

Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced a strategic partnership with ALZpath, Inc to accelerate breakthroughs in neurodegenerative disease research and treatment, including Alzheimer's disease. The collaboration leverages Bio-Techne's Ella™ fully automated, multiplexing immunoassay platform and ALZpath's proprietary pTau217 antibody to provide the Simple Plex Human Phospho-Tau (T217) ALZpath Assay.

Roche subsidiary Foundation Medicine said on Monday that its FoundationOne Liquid CDx assay has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for use as a companion diagnostic with Merck KGaA's Tepmetko (tepotinib) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Augurex Life Sciences Corp., a leader in autoimmune biomarker-based diagnostics, today announced that it has formed a nonexclusive agreement with Quest Diagnostics, a leading provider of diagnostic information services, under which Quest will validate and offer a lab-developed test based on the Augurex 14-3-3η (eta) biomarker in the United States.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has received CE Mark for its VENTANA® FOLR1 (FOLR1-2.1) RxDx Assay. This is the first immunohistochemistry (IHC) companion diagnostic test to be made widely available in Europe to aid in identifying epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) patients who may be eligible for targeted treatment with ELAHERE® (mirvetuximab soravtansine). ELAHERE is a first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapy developed by AbbVie for the treatment of FRɑ-positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

PAVmed Inc. (NASDAQ: PAVM, PAVMZ) ("PAVmed" or the "Company"), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company, operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, today provided a business update for the Company and its subsidiaries, Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ: LUCD) ("Lucid") and Veris Health Inc. ("Veris"), and presented financial results for the Company for the three months ended September 30, 2024.

SEKISUI Diagnostics’ microbial CDMO business announces it has completed construction of its £15.7 million ($20.7 million) cGMP capacity expansion at its UK site for clinical-grade drug substance manufacturing. Following appropriate licensure, this expansion will enable manufacturing capabilities for common drug types including enzymes, proteins and antibody fragment therapies, as well as plasmids and enzymes for cutting-edge gene therapy manufacture.

Caris Life Sciences® (Caris), a leading next-generation AI TechBio company and precision medicine pioneer, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved MI Cancer Seek™ for use as a companion diagnostic (CDx) to identify cancer patients who may benefit from treatment with targeted therapies. The assay includes one pan-cancer and five tumor-specific indications for numerous FDA-approved therapies. MI Cancer Seek is the first and only simultaneous Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing (WTS)-based assay with FDA-approved CDx indications for molecular profiling of solid tumors. MI Cancer Seek is available for adults and pediatric patients, ages 1-22.

Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: LUCD) ("Lucid" or the "Company") a commercial-stage, cancer prevention medical diagnostics company, and subsidiary of PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ) ("PAVmed"), today provided a business update for the Company and presented financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2024.