Category Archives: COVID-19 Updates

Co-Diagnostics has added to its suite of intellectual property protection after being awarded a patent from the Republic of Korea’s Intellectual Property Office for the Company’s CoPrimer™ technology. Developed in 2013, Co-Diagnostics’ solely-owned CoPrimer technology received its first patent from the US Patent Office in 2018, and underpins the company’s molecular diagnostic test products that […]

South Salt Lake-based R-Zero, the first biosafety technology company dedicated to creating safer, healthier indoor spaces, announced July 20 its acquisition of CoWorkr, the leading property technology company offering privacy-first space utilization sensors for data-driven workplaces. Fresh off its Series B raise closed in June, R-Zero’s first acquisition accelerates speed to market for an IoT […]

Owlet on July 15 announced that it completed its business combination with Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) as previously announced in February. Following the transaction, the company was renamed Owlet, Inc, and its Class A common stock and warrants began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols “OWLT” […]

Sera Prognostics – The Pregnancy Company® – located in Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4,687,500 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $16.00 per share. Sera is a women’s health diagnostics company dedicated to improving the lives of women and babies […]

Turner Imaging Systems has entered a distribution agreement with MIS Healthcare to market its Smart-C fluoroscopic Mini C-Arm in the UK and Ireland. MIS Healthcare, with headquarters in London, is a large, independent medical imaging equipment supplier throughout the UK and Ireland, servicing NHS and HSE hospitals as well as private hospitals, clinics, screening centers […]

Major League Baseball has expanded its partnership with Spectrum Solutions to facilitate a COVID-19 testing program throughout the 2021 Minor League season. Under the partnership, Spectrum will be supplying all Major League and Minor League teams with its innovative SDNA-1000 saliva collection kits for all player and staff testing. Spectrum Solutions has also consulted with […]

In May, Spectrum Solutions was awarded the prestigious Best of State® award in the Science & Technology category for Medical Innovation. Spectrum received this honor for its SDNA-1000 Saliva Collection Device. “At Spectrum Solutions, our focus is on creating forward-looking and scalable end-to-end solutions for applications such as clinical diagnostics and commercialized product plans.” said […]

Park City based and BioUtah member, BlueWind Medical, has announced its 100th patient implant in their pivotal study – Overactive Bladder (OAB) Stimulation System Study (OASIS) – for treating overactive bladder symptoms using the company’s innovative medical device the RENOVA™ iStim. The milestone marks an important step towards FDA clearance for the device. “The 100th […]

Recursion has announced a multi-year collaboration with Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, to accelerate Recursion’s machine learning capabilities. Recursion will open office space within Mila and build a team focused on using machine learning for tech-enabled drug discovery. “Recursion is executing at the forefront of multiple technical fields including biology, chemistry, automation, engineering and […]

BioUtah congratulates the Epitel team on its first peer-reviewed manuscript, “Electrographic Seizure Monitoring with a Novel, Wireless, Single-Channel EEG Sensor,” comparing Epilog EEG to the clinical gold-standard of traditional EEG. The publication appears in Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. People living with epilepsy could benefit by having a more accurate and objective wearable EEG system for counting seizures […]