Antonino Morales and Linda Rubinstein have been added to Biocept's board of directors. Director Samuel Riccitelli has also been tapped to serve as the company's chairman of the board.
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical's North American BreathTek business has been bought by Meridian Bioscience in a deal worth $20 million. Meridian Bioscience will assume customer relationships to supply BreathTek, a urea breath test used to detect Helicobacter pylori.
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EU antitrust regulators said they have opened an investigation to determine whether the $8 billion cash and stock acquisition of cancer test startup Grail by Illumina will reduce innovation and competition. Meanwhile, the US Federal Trade Commission is attempting to block the deal.
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The FDA has given emergency use authorization to Ortho Clinical Diagnostics for its Vitros Immunodiagnostic Products Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Total N Reagent Pack that is used with its Vitros Immunodiagnostic Products Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Total N Antibody Calibrators to detect total antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in plasma and serum.
The FDA has given marketing clearance to First Light Diagnostics for its SensiTox C. difficile Toxin Test and its MultiPath Analyzer that can deliver results within 35 minutes.
Abbott generated $10.2 billion in sales and $1.2 billion in profits during its fiscal second quarter, which ended June 30. "Excluding COVID testing-related sales, our sales grew more than 11 percent on an organic basis compared to pre-pandemic levels in the second quarter of 2019, which demonstrates the fundamental strength of our performance," said Robert Ford, Abbott's CEO and president.
Danaher generated $7.2 billion in sales and $1.7 billion in profits during its fiscal second quarter, which ended July 2. "We continued to make significant growth investments during the quarter, strengthening our organic growth trajectory and enhancing our portfolio with the announcement of our pending acquisition of Aldevron," said Rainer Blair, president and CEO of Danaher.
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