Browsing: Diagnostics

With strong connections to Harvard and MIT, the Broad Institute provides clinics, nursing homes, and schools with reliable access to a reliable RT-PCR assay Covid-19 testing system.  Launched in 2004 by Harvard and MIT, the Broad Institute is a medical company that specializes in genomic technology, and they have created…

Quanterix is a Massachusetts company with an ultra-sensitive, versatile Covid-19 antigen test, and they are also the company behind the digital health solution Simoa.  Quanterix is a Massachusetts-based medical company that has developed a laboratory Covid-19 antigen test that uses an ultra-sensitive single-molecule assay to analyze a number of sample…

Illumina is a San Diego-based company with a unique Next-Generation Sequencing approach that allows for widespread, fast, and accurate Covid-19 testing across the nation.  Illumina is a San Diego-based genomics company that has created a “MegaLab” for scaled-up, next-gen Covid-19 testing using genomic sequencing. To date, the company has received…

MIT researchers have found a new angle: applying AI to detect COVID-19 in an asymptomatic patient. From a cough. Recorded by a phone. Earlier this year, researchers from MIT solicited tens of thousands of recorded “forced” (i.e. not naturally occurring) coughs from over 5,300 subjects – both COVID-positive and COVID-negative…

Biobot Analytics tracks the spread of Covid-19 by analyzing the wastewater of a given population, and this method is cheaper than individual testing while offering earlier warnings and better trend analysis.  Biobot Analytics is a Cambridge-based wastewater analysis company with strong links to MIT. With its patented technology, Biobot takes…

 Luminostics is a medical diagnostics company that specializes in rapid, accurate self-tests for infectious diseases that can be carried out by consumers at home. The company’s expressed mission is to “increase healthcare accessibility and efficiency by designing, developing, manufacturing, and delivering products that enable affordable, widespread access to actionable health…

Fluxergy is a medical diagnostics company based in Irvine, California. The company was founded in 2003, and aims to answer the question: “Why is there not a better laboratory testing system on the market that can conduct a variety of tests at the point-of-use?” Over the years, Fluxergy has been…

The Rockefeller Foundation has taken leadership on developing strategies to deal with COVID-19. They have created the position of Managing Director, Pandemics and appointed and expert in the field, Dr.  Jonathan “Jono” Quick MD to fill the position. Quick is author of a book entitled “End of Pandemics.” They also…