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.

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

Several leading In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) companies have posted their first-quarter results for 2026, showing mixed performance across revenue, profitability, and cash flow.

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today releases its business review for the three months ended March 31, 2026.

Rapigen, Inc., an in vitro diagnostics company specializing in rapid diagnostic tests, announced that three of its malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) — BIOCREDIT Malaria Ag Pf (pLDH), BIOCREDIT Malaria Ag Pf (pLDH/HRPII), and BIOCREDIT Malaria Ag Pf/Pv (pLDH/pLDH) — were officially added to the World Health Organization (WHO) Prequalification (PQ) product list on April 14, 2025. With this listing, Rapigen becomes eligible for UN procurement channels and global public health supply programs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 28, 2026.

Group sales were +6% at constant exchange rates (CER), -5% when reported in CHF and +9% in USD, in the first three months, driven by high demand for our innovative medicines and diagnostics.

Artera, a developer of multimodal AI-based prognostic and predictive cancer tests, announced today that it was granted CE marking under the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU IVDR) for both its ArteraAI Prostate Biopsy Assay and ArteraAI Breast Cancer Assay, marking a major step in the company’s global expansion.

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, and Google Cloud today announced a landmark partnership to enhance Merck’s digital backbone as an AI-enabled enterprise. This multi-year investment, valued at up to $1 billion, will deploy an agentic platform across Merck’s research & development (R&D), manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions – and includes Google Cloud engineers working alongside Merck teams to deploy Google Cloud’s most sophisticated AI, including Gemini Enterprise.

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), a leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.

Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) today announced results for the first quarter 2026. All results in this release reflect only continuing operations and period-to-period comparisons are year-over-year unless otherwise noted.

It can be seen from analysis on major blood grouping analyzer-related patent applications published in the 3 years from 2018 to 2021 that benefited from the basically stable original technologies of the industry; domestic enterprises have continuously increased R&D inputs, constantly improved technical innovation capability, made breakthroughs in many technologies, and developed a batch of core components of instruments with independent intellectual property rights through follow-on R&D strategy.