Lab

Arkana Laboratories, a diagnostic service provider, plans to invest more than $30 million to expand its operations in Little Rock, Ark.

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health joined Secaucus, N.J.-based lab company Quest Diagnostics. 

The U.S. is gearing up for a national trial to assess the effectiveness of various blood tests in detecting cancer early on, MIT Technology Review reported Sept. 12.

DNA-based technology developer Applied DNA has launched its monkeypox testing service after receiving approval from the New York State Department of Health.

Medical and life sciences manufacturer Olympus is selling Evident, its lab instrument subsidiary, to a private equity firm for $3.08 billion, Chemical & Engineering News reported Sept. 1.

Trade group The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra objecting to a CMS proposal to consider bachelor's degrees in nursing a qualification for high-complexity lab testing.

Diagnostics company Todos Medical is offering saliva-only monkeypox testing at its Atlanta lab Provista Diagnostics.

Worldwide Clinical Trials Inc. is aiming to hire dozens of workers for a $10 million expansion to its Austin, Texas, lab, the Austin Business Journal reported Aug. 24.

Amid questions of accuracy, two rapid antigen COVID-19 tests correctly diagnosed most infections among nearly 800 people experiencing symptoms, researchers found. 

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC School of Medicine discovered that a molecule commonly used to label DNA triggers a cellular process that is fatal to cancer…