Tasso, Inc.

SEATTLE--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Tasso, Inc., the leading provider of patient-centric, clinical grade blood collection solutions, today announced the launch of its next generation technology for dried blood spot (DBS) sample collection. The novel collection system combines Tasso’s new Tile™-T20 dried whole blood cartridge with a Tasso™ Mini device, enabling the precise, convenient collection of DBS samples for clinical trials and sports anti-doping testing. Tasso’s new collection system provides advantages over legacy DBS methods, improving and accelerating the clinical trial process. Tile-T20 is the first DBS collection cartridge designed specifically for use with patient-centric blood lancets. Tile-T20 collects four precise, volumetrically-controlled blood samples that meet the needs of quantitative endpoints or drug concentration measurements. It is compatible with any of Tasso’s virtually painless, FDA-cleared and CE Marked blood collection devices, including Tasso Mini and Tasso+®. Tasso Mini is the latest device in Tasso’s signature line of patient-centric blood lancets, providing a gentle collection experience ideal for use with sensitive populations or for applications that may require more frequent blood draws. The Tasso Mini device is FDA Class II Lancet 510(k)-cleared and CE Marked. “Dried blood samples offer many advantages for clinical trials and remote applications, but collection methods have long been a burden on patients, relying on painful finger sticks and messy blood spotting to obtain samples,” said Ben Casavant, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of Tasso. “Our next generation dried blood collection systems enable a better patient experience alongside new process improvements.” “Access to clinic sites can be difficult for many patients, especially for those without reliable transportation or living in rural areas. Unfortunately, access challenges often lead to recruitment and retention issues, ultimately delaying clinical trial timelines,” said Erwin Berthier, PhD, CTO and Co-Founder of Tasso. “This new technology has the potential to improve trial timelines and speed new therapies to patients in need.” To learn more about Tasso’s dried blood collection solutions, please visit www.tassoinc.com/dried-blood . About Tasso Tasso is an emerging healthcare technology company that is transforming the traditional blood collection paradigm with a patient-centric approach. The company’s devices enable simple, convenient, and virtually painless blood collection for users. Tasso technology has the power to bring healthcare anywhere, any time. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Tasso is privately held and funded by grants, investments, and co-development deals with various industry leaders. For more information, please visit www.tassoinc.com .

Tasso\'s wearable, push-button lancets have also received regulatory green lights for larger whole blood samples. \n Tasso, maker of at-home blood sample collection systems, is launching the next generation of its devices that aim to support patients enrolled in clinical trials and simplify their participation in drug development.The latest hardware for dried blood spot collection can also be employed in sports anti-doping testing, the company said.Its Tile-T20 cartridge and the wearable Tasso Mini push-button lancet are designed to collect four precise blood samples at a specific volume to help biopharma researchers and drug developers chart the concentrations of their medications and establish the proper doses without forcing study participants to travel to a clinical site.  “For decades, blood collection has been mired in the status quo, requiring patients to commute to a lab and endure uncomfortable venipuncture or self-collect with painful finger sticks. As a result, clinical trials often face challenges with recruitment and retention due to the testing burden on patients,“ Tasso co-founder and CEO Ben Casavant told Fierce Medtech. “By making quality sample collection simple, convenient, and virtually painless, the industry can reduce barriers to clinical trial recruitment and drive compliance.“Tasso previously obtained regulatory green lights in the U.S. and Europe for its Tasso Mini and Tasso+ systems, which attach to the upper arm and gently pull blood from the capillaries, including whole samples at larger liquid volumes that can be mailed to a lab for analysis.The Fierce Medtech Fierce 15 winner’s CE marked Tile-T20 cartridge, for research use only within the U.S., provides redundant, 17.5-microliter samples of dried blood that can be shipped and stored at room temperature. “Access to clinic sites can be difficult for many patients, especially for those without reliable transportation or living in rural areas. Unfortunately, access challenges often lead to recruitment and retention issues, ultimately delaying clinical trial timelines,” Erwin Berthier, Tasso\'s co-founder and chief technology officer, said in a statement. “This new technology has the potential to improve trial timelines and speed new therapies to patients in need.”

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Announces Two Acquisitions 6.41 Nigerian Govt Approves Alere HIV Self-Test Kit 6.42 Boots launches UTI test and treat service across 37 branches 6.43 Scanwell Health moves beyond home UTI testing 6.44 Healthy.io raises $18 million for at-home urinalysis tests 6.45 LetsGetChecked collects $30M more for at-home health testing 6.46 TestCard, a $4 Urine Test Read by Smartphone 6.47 Digital Health Startup EverlyWell Raises $50M 6.48 Thriva adds test-at-home kits for female hormone and cortisol stress 6.49 Tasso scores $6.1M for patch-based home blood testing 6.50 DBS Systems HEMAXIS receives CE/IVD mark 6.51 Abbott HbA1c point-of-care test reliably diagnoses diabetes 7 Profiles of Key Diagnostic Testing Companies 7.1 1DropDiagnostics 7.2 Abbott Laboratories 7.3 Accel Diagnostics 7.4 Ador Diagnostics 7.5 ADT Biotech 7.6 Akonni Biosystems 7.7 AlphaBiolabs 7.8 Alveo Technologies 7.9 Applied BioCode 7.10 Atomo Diagnostics 7.11 Aureum Diagnostics 7.12 Aus Diagnostics 7.13 Becton, Dickinson and Company 7.14 Binx Health 7.15 Biocartis 7.16 BioFire Diagnostics (bioMerieux) 7.17 bioMerieux Diagnostics 7.18 Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc 7.19 Bosch Healthcare Solutions GmbH 7.20 Cepheid (Danaher) 7.21 Cue Health 7.22 Curetis (OpGen) 7.23 DBS Systems 7.24 Detect 7.25 Diagenode Diagnostics (Hologic) 7.26 Diasorin S.p.A. 7.27 Domus Diagnostics 7.28 Ellume 7.29 Everywell 7.30 Getlabs 7.31 Grip Molecular Technologies 7.32 Healthy.io 7.33 Hologic 7.34 Inflammatix 7.35 Invetech 7.36 J&J Innovative Medicine 7.37 Karius 7.38 Laboratory Corporation of America 7.39 Letsgetchecked 7.40 LightDeck Diagnostics 7.41 Lucira Health (Pfizer) 7.42 LumiraDx 7.43 Meep 7.44 MFB Fertility 7.45 myLabBox 7.46 Nanomix 7.47 OraSure Technologies 7.48 Oxford Nanopore Technologies 7.49 Panagene 7.50 Prenetics 7.51 Primerdesign (Novacyt) 7.52 Prominex 7.53 Qiagen 7.54 QuantuMDx 7.55 Quest Diagnostics 7.56 QuidelOrtho 7.57 Randox Toxicology 7.58 R-Biopharm AG 7.59 Response Biomedical 7.60 Roche Diagnostics 7.61 Salignostics 7.62 SD Biosensor 7.63 Seegene 7.64 Sekisui Diagnostics 7.65 Siemens Healthineers 7.66 T2 Biosystems 7.67 TestCard 7.68 Thermo Fisher Scientific 7.69 Thriva 7.70 Visby Medical 7.71 XCR Diagnostics 7.72 YourBio Health 8 Global Market Size 8.1 OTC/DTC ID Global Market Size by Country 8.2 OTC/DTC ID Global Market Size by Syndrome 8.3 OTC/DTC ID Global Market Size by Channel 9 Global Market by Syndrome 9.1 Respiratory Market 9.2 STD Market 9.3 UTI Market 9.4 HxV Market 9.5 Other Market 10 Global Market by Channel 10.1 OTC Market 10.2 DTC Market 10.3 HSG Market 11 Appendices 11.1 Growth of Approved IVD Test Menu 11.2 Growth of Approved Average IVD Test Fee 11.3 The Most Used IVD Assays 11.4 The Highest Grossing Assays 11.5 Laboratory Fees Schedule For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/qemc4i About ResearchAndMarkets.com ResearchAndMarkets.com is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. 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