SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday that it seeks to commercialize a COVID-19 test kit by March that provides results within three minutes to help better combat the pandemic. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the new semiconductor-based kit has a low likelihood of false negatives for the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed the technology and equipment to detect viruses in an indoor environment in just 50 minutes. A joint research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, and Konkuk University’s Department of Veterinary Medicine announced [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Monday it has signed an agreement worth 210 billion won (US$185 million) to supply a diagnostic kit for the novel coronavirus in the United States. Under the agreement, Celltrion’s rapid antigen kit, Sampinute, will be distributed by Prime Healthcare Distributors in the [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea is pushing to export a coronavirus test kit developed by a military research center that drastically reduces the diagnosis time, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The Armed Forces Medical Research Institute has patented the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method used in the test kit that cuts the [...]
SEJONG, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of coronavirus test kits jumped on-year in the first 20 days of this month, data showed Wednesday. Exports of test kits stood at US$131.9 million in the 20-day period, compared with $7.25 million for the same period last year, according to the data from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seegene Inc., a major diagnostic assay maker in South Korea, said Wednesday that it has won an emergency approval from the U.S. health authority for its test kit for the new coronavirus that has infected more than 2.5 million around the globe. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A shipment of South Korean-made coronavirus test kits will depart for the United States early Wednesday, officials said, under arrangements made after U.S. President Donald Trump asked for medical supplies during a phone call with President Moon Jae-in last month, Two South Korean test kit makers have signed contracts [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Three South Korean companies have inked contracts with the U.S. government to export coronavirus test kits, with shipments likely to take place next week, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday. The companies won interim approval last month from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the exports, after U.S. [...]
Tokyo, Aug 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Tanaka Holdings Co., Ltd. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) today announced that Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., which operates the Tanaka Precious Metals’ manufacturing business, has developed “PersonalA1c”, a highly sensitive screening kit enabling simple testing of diabetes in approximately 10 minutes by using colloidal gold. Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo plans to [...]