Roche improves portfolio for early hepatitis C diagnosis and targeted treatment
07 March, 2012Roche now offers an updated portfolio for the early detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and personalised disease management. Its improved diagnostics and patient monitoring tools allow for HCV testing with high performance in early infection and ease of use, allowing clinicians to work efficiently and to suit individual patient treatment.
InnovaCoat Gold conjugation kit
02 March, 2012The InnovaCoat Gold conjugation kit allows antibodies, proteins and other biomolecules to be covalently attached to ultrastable Gold nanoparticles with simple pipetting operations. The hands-on time for the conjugation procedure is about 2 min and the conjugate is ready to use within 15 min. The conjugation reaction is initiated by adding a solution of the antibody, which becomes attached (via lysine residues) to the InnovaCoat surface.
CHROMagar Listeria Method
09 February, 2012CHROMagar has developed a rapid method for the detection of L. monocytogenes in food stuff.
Lab test technology a step closer to securing patents
23 January, 2012Millispot, a porous polymer-based material for storing dry blood used in laboratory analyses, is a step closer to securing comprehensive patents, following the release of a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) report indicating that all claims of the patent application appear to be novel and inventive.
Lonza CalciFluor Bone Resorption Assay kit
30 November, 2011 byThe CalciFluor Bone Resorption Assay kit provides reagents for the sensitive and quantitative measurement of in vitro bone resorption in a rapid and homogeneous format.
SeraCare Life Sciences Accurun 341 Nucleic Acid Positive controls for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
29 November, 2011SeraCare Life Sciences has introduced a series of controls designed to work with highly sensitive nucleic acid assays for detection of chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Alere epoc Blood Analysis System
24 November, 2011The Alere epoc Blood Analysis System is a cost-effective, point-of-care testing solution that makes use of Smartcard Technology and wireless connectivity, to provide real-time, lab-quality blood gas, electrolyte and metabolite results at the patient’s bedside.
Vicam Vertu digital lateral flow reader for mycotoxin quantitation
12 August, 2011 byVicam has launched Vertu, a digital lateral flow reader for fast, easy mycotoxin quantitation.
Bio-Rad Laboratories Bio-Plex Pro human and mouse diabetes assays
08 August, 2011 byBio-Plex Pro human and mouse diabetes assays are magnetic bead-based multiplex assays for the simultaneous detection of multiple diabetes and obesity biomarkers in a single experiment, using as little as 12.5 µL of sample. These assays have been developed to deliver accurate, reproducible measurements with complete flexibility to meet research needs.
Randox Biochip Array Technology
03 August, 2011 byRandox Biochip Array Technology offers a diagnostic-grade testing solution for the detection of drugs in oral fluids with reliable and reproducible results.
Bio-Rad Laboratories BioPlex 2200 Antiphospholipid Syndrome IgG, IgM and IgA kits
20 June, 2011 byBio-Rad Laboratories has launched its BioPlex 2200 Antiphospholipid Syndrome IgG, IgM and IgA kits for use on its BioPlex 2200 system in Europe and Canada. Antiphospholipid Syndrome is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly produces antibodies to certain blood proteins causing thrombosis (clotting) within arteries, veins and small blood vessels.
Bruker MALDI Biotyper solution
19 June, 2011 byBruker has announced the successful completion of an integrated workflow using the company’s MALDI Biotyper for microbial identification (ID) from cultures and the BD Phoenix system for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). The ID and AST systems are integrated via the BD EpiCenter data management system.
Biotrin Intl to develop a nucleic acid test (NAT) analyser
17 June, 2011DiaSorin has announced that its fully owned Irish subsidiary Biotrin International has signed an agreement with Precision System Science (PSS) of Japan for the development of a nucleic acid test (NAT) analyser.
TTP LabTech Libra2 acoustic biosensor
31 May, 2011
TTP LabTech’s acoustic biosensor, Libra2, can be used for the study of glycosylation patterns on cell membranes.
DxH 800 Haematology Analyser case study webinar
25 May, 2011A case study presentation on the capabilities of the DxH 800 Haematology Analyser is available via a webinar format. To access the webcast go to: http://video.webcasts.com/events/bcou001/38321/.
