GenMark Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its ePlex® SARS-CoV-2 Test
GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:GNMK), a leading provider of automated, multiplex molecular diagnostic testing systems, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use More...
Hillary Clinton Proposes Rapid Response Fund to Fight Pandemics, improve Public Health Infrastructure
Hillary Clinton released the following statement on her plans to bolster America’s public health infrastructure to deal with the new challenges facing our communities and our families, including a new Public Health More...
SARS samples discovered missing during inventory at Institut Pasteur, France
The Institut Pasteur in Paris has reported some 2,000 missing vials that contained fragments of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus. The discovery was made while performing customary regulatory More...
Bat SARS-like coronavirus, influenza and NEIDL: ‘What’s New on Virology Blog?’
On a special segment on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show Saturday, Nov. 23, I had the opportunity to discuss some of the interesting posts made by Columbia University Microbiology and Immunology Professor, More...
A conversation about MERS coronavirus: Dispatch Radio
With the latest case count of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) now standing at 80, there has been a great deal of attention given to this relatively new viral outbreak. On Saturday’s More...
