Mirxes said Wednesday that is has partnered with Nagawa Pharmaceutical to accelerate development and implementation of its early cancer screening tests across Japan.

The University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry and South Korean semiconductor firm Dongwoon Anatech said on Friday that they have inked a three-year agreement worth upward of $2.4 million for the development of saliva-based liquid biopsy technologies.

Personalis said this week that it has extended its strategic collaboration with Tempus AI to include colorectal cancer (CRC) among the indications covered by their existing, exclusive commercialization agreement.

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.

Gene Solutions and Topgen Biomedical Technology said Thursday that they have entered a partnership under which Shaoxing, China-based Topgen will offer various genomic tests developed by Gene Solutions for cancer early detection and monitoring.

Singapore-based microRNA diagnostics firm MiRxes said Thursday that it has launched an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, selling 46,620,000 Hong Kong offer shares and 41,958,000 international offer shares at HK$23.30 (US$2.98) per share for approximately HK$880.5 million (US$112.8 million) in net proceeds.

Dutch diagnostics firm MRC Holland said Thursday that its liquid biopsy test for Peutz-Jeghers syndrome has been certified under Europe's In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR).

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE), to support the development and commercialization of Pfizer’s oncology portfolio using the Guardant Infinity™ smart liquid biopsy platform.

Real-world data firm Cota said Thursday that it has teamed up with Guardant Health to provide biopharmaceutical researchers access to a combined database that will include its own electronic health record data and Guardant’s genomic testing results from cancer patients.

PreAnalytiX GmbH, a joint venture between QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company; NYSE: BDX), today announced the launch of the PAXgene® Urine Liquid Biopsy Set, which enables the reliable analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from urine with most molecular testing technologies, including qPCR, digital PCR and next-generation sequencing (NGS). The new set will be commercialized by QIAGEN.