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 ...

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health launched a large-scale rapid result testing system for influenza A, B, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus. The health system invested about $2 million to ...

Cepheid, a medical device and biotech company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., plans to lay off 686 workers by June 20, according to notices filed with the state. The company, which makes PCR diagnostic ...

Cepheid has granted Baltimore-based Environmental Technologies Group Inc (ETG) a worldwide, non-exclusive sublicense to key patents for development of rapid, handheld DNA analysis systems for bioagent ...