With the development of artificial intelligence technology, it plays an important role in laboratory medicine, especially in the automatic identification of cell morphology. The new generation of AI technology shows the characteristics of deep learning, autonomous learning, human-machine collaboration, and so on.

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Trinity Biotech plc (Nasdaq: TRIB), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on human diagnostics and diabetes management solutions, including wearable biosensors, today announced it has received World Health Organization (WHO) approval for the offshored and outsourced upstream manufacturing activities of its high-volume TrinScreen™ HIV rapid test, a cornerstone diagnostic product used in HIV screening programs. This regulatory approval marks a critical milestone in the Company’s comprehensive transformation plan aimed at restoring financial performance and driving sustainable profitability.

Microfluidic chip technology integrates basic operational units such as sample preparation, reaction, analysis, and detection, harnessing techniques from the fields of chemistry and biology into a chip of several square centimeters, automatically completing the entire analysis process.

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement with Standard BioTools (NASDAQ: LAB) under which Illumina will acquire SomaLogic, a leader in data-driven proteomics technology, and other specified assets for $350 million in cash payable at closing, subject to customary adjustments, plus up to $75 million in near-term performance-based milestones and performance-based royalties.

H.U. Group Holdings Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Fujirebio Holdings, Inc. (hereinafter “Fujirebio”) today announced that Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., a subsidiary of Fujirebio, has acquired all shares of Plasma Services Group, Inc. (hereinafter “Plasma Services Group”). The transaction value has not been disclosed.

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Amazon has launched its first-ever at-home lab testing service in India. The new service, called Amazon Diagnostics, has been introduced in collaboration with Orange Health Labs, a diagnostics provider known for its convenience-focused model.

The European Commission decided to exclude Chinese companies from EU government purchases of medical devices exceeding €5 million. This measure follows the conclusions of the first investigation under the International Procurement Instrument (IPI), and allows no more than 50% of inputs from China for successful bids.

In a letter to customers on Wednesday, Bio-Rad Laboratories announced that it has decided against implementing a tariff surcharge that the company on May 21 said it was considering for at least some of its products. The surcharge came following the firm's disclosure of approximately $40 million in tariff-related revenue headwinds for 2025.

GeneCentric Therapeutics, a company making precision medicine more precise through gene expression, today announced the initial closing of an $8.0 million Series C financing. The proceeds will be used to launch and commercialize GeneCentric’s GenomicsNext™, the first integrated platform for comprehensive liquid biopsy testing that simultaneously provides thousands of gene expression measurements and high-fidelity DNA variant detection from circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in one sample. This novel gene expression platform will accelerate the growth of GeneCentric’s pipeline of predictive response signatures for oncology therapeutics development.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and GENCURIX, Inc. (KOSDAQ: 229000) today announced a new partnership to develop oncology assays for use on the QIAcuityDx platform, a high-performance digital PCR system designed for clinical diagnostics.