SD Biosensor omicron

Electronics Dreamtech builds electronics, medical device factory in India

South Korean electronics components maker Dreamtech said on Monday that it built a new factory in India's Greater Noida.The company invested 85.1 bi...

Electronics Samsung releases SD card brand highly resistant to water, drops

Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said its new Pro Ultimate line of secure data (SD) cards features enhanced speed and stability.The brand’...

Bio & Pharma Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine

South Korean bio-venture Cellid Co. announced on Tuesday that it has applied for the clinical Phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 Omicron variant-specific...

Bio & Pharma FDA suspends COVID-19 diagnostic kit of S.Korea’s SD Biosensor

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that consumers discard select models of Pilot COVID-19 self-diagnostic test kits sold on t...

Bio & Pharma Precision Biosensor enters Italy with chemical test kits

South Korea’s diagnostic devices supplier Precision Biosensor Inc. has signed an export contract with Italian medical device company Borden Ch...

Bio & Pharma Korea's SD Biosensor to supply diagnostics kits to Japan in H2

SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea’s leading in-vitro diagnostics company, has signed an agreement to supply its COVID-19 self-test kits and other...

Research & Development Sejong Univ. unveils upgraded biosensor-related technology

South Korea’s Sejong University has developed a technology to sharply reduce the detection time of biomolecules produced by cells and living o...

Mergers & Acquisitions SD Biosensor seeks more M&As, to build diagnostic kit plant in US

SD Biosensor Inc., the world's largest COVID-19 test kit seller, is seeking additional merger and acquisition targets in the US following its recent...

Mergers & Acquisitions SD Biosensor, SJL Partners to acquire Meridian Bioscience for $1.53 bn

SD Biosensor Inc., the world's largest COVID-19 test kit seller, and private equity firm SJL Partners LLC are jointly acquiring Meridian Bioscience ...

Mergers & Acquisitions COVID test kit maker SD Biosensor buys Italian medical device firm

SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea’s top manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, said on Friday that it has signed a deal to purchase a 100% stake i...

Entertainment BTS returns to Korean stage for 1st time since 2019

SEOUL — In the latest sign that life is going back to something that resembles the pre-pandemic past, BTS is returning to the stage in Seoul.The...

Korean stock market Korea’s reopening stocks shine despite surging Omicron cases

South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...

Pharamaceuticals, biotech Celltrion to conduct tests on Omicron variant detected in Korea

Biopharmaceutical powerhouse Celltrion Inc. plans to use its treatments to test the Omicron variant detected in Korea, according to a high-level com...

COVID-19 Korea’s reopening stocks jump on easing Omicron woes

South Korea’s reopening stocks surged on Dec. 3 as US President Joe Biden’s plans to curb the Omicron variant of COVID-19 exclude lockdo...

IPOs Kakao Pay delays IPO following regulator request to refile prospectus

Kakao Pay Corp., the digital settlement platform unit of South Korea’s top messaging app operator Kakao Corp., is delaying its planned initial...

IPOs COVID-19 test kit supplier makes modest market debut

SD Biosensor Inc., the world's largest COVID-19 test kit seller, made a modest debut on the Korea Exchange on Friday, defying market expectations th...

IPOs Kakao Pay must refile IPO registration statement to FSS

South Korea’s financial regulator Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on July 16 requested correction of Kakao Pay’s IPO registration st...

IPOs World’s top COVID-19 test kit maker draws $28 bn in IPO subscriptions

The IPO of SD Biosensor Inc., which has sold the most COVID-19 test kits in the world -- selling more than 700 million kits from February 2020 to Ma...

COVID-19 COVID-19 blues? Pandemic makes SD Biosensor Korea’s top-grossing bio firm

Multinational biopharmaceutical companies have dominated the world’s diagnostics market for years. However, the coronavirus pandemic, which st...