NEW YORK – Scope Biosciences has secured €1 million ($1.2 million) in follow-on investment to scale its molecular diagnostics platform. The diagnostics developer said on Monday that the investment ...

NEW YORK — EDX Medical Group said on Monday that it has a signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based healthcare group Spire Healthcare around diagnostic products and testing services.

The acquisition is intended to expand the French firm's presence in sequencing-based infectious disease testing.

Last week, readers were most interested in a story about reports of a possible sale by Thermo Fisher Scientific of parts of its diagnostics business.

The company uses artificial intelligence to detect metabolic patterns from urine samples that indicate prostate cancer.

The clinical lab giant is working with MD Anderson on an LDT for assessing cancer risk to drive uptake of recommended screenings and identify high-risk individuals for evaluation.

The Birmingham, UK, firm hopes to develop a broader test menu with industry partners, using AI and machine-learning approaches.

NEW YORK — Gut microbiome health startup 32 Biosciences said on Tuesday that it has raised $6 million in private funding, which it said will support the development of its first products.

The University of Chicago spinout said that it will use the money to support the commercialization of its saliva-based sequencing test for oral cancers.