Testing for COVID-19 is technical, expensive and complicated -- particularly in Alaska, with its remote, far-flung communities and overlapping systems of tribal and private health care. That ...

When the plot was written for Sunnyvale's Cepheid, it was a classic tale of turning swords into plowshares. Founded in 1996, the fledgling biotech company took fast new methods of DNA analysis ...

On Sept. 10, Tom Gutshall and Kurt Petersen ran a little-known Sunnyvale biotech company specializing in life sciences research. While competing against a larger and more established rival, Cepheid ...

A new diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus will return results in just 45 minutes, four times faster than existing machines. But the test, emergency use of which was cleared by the Food and Drug ...

For much of last year, the coronavirus crept, undetected, across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Test samples had to be sent more than 1,500 kilometres from remote hospitals to the capital ...

Dr. Carroll P. and Diane S. Osgood of Hollidaysburg have made a significant gift to Penn State Altoona in support of the college’s student health and wellness initiatives. The gift, in the amount of ...

Danaher's then chief executive, Tom Joyce, touted Cepheid's "razor-blade business." Joyce was referring to the way sales of the GeneXpert machine, as with sales of razors, create demand for cartridges ...

Cepheid isn't breaching any contract by directing supplies to the U.S. and other wealthy markets because there isn't one, health officials told Reuters. But there was a pledge to set aside 1.55 ...