The Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) kicked off its 2013 Summer Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Wednesday. The large gathering of many of the top minds from the insulating glass (IG) industry began the three-day ...
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Trovagene has adopted RainDance's RainDrop Digital PCR System for research and development, and for use in the Trovagene CLIA laboratory. In addition, Trovagene has successfully developed a cell-free DNA mutation assay leveraging the ...
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IntelligentMDx has secured clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for IMDx VanR for Abbott m2000 assay, an automated molecular diagnostic test that detects the presence of vanA and vanB genes associated with ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Boehringer Ingelheim's tyrosine kinase inhibitor Gilotrif (afatinib) as a new medication for patients with late stage (metastatic) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The approval also ...
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“Nothing is too good for ordinary people”, was the mantra coined by the architect Berthold Lubetkin in the 30s, and was his manifesto for the positive effect of good design for everyone. Today it still resonates and is a ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new streamlined workflow process for the cobas Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test, which help labs reduce costs, improve turnaround time and focus on other key tasks. Roche ...
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BD Diagnostics and Diagenode have jointly announced the Europe-only launch of a new real-time Diagenode Bordetella pertussis/parapertussis real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kit for use on the BD MAX System. Timely detection of ...
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NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for a broad variety of nylon carpet styles and colors manufactured by Mannington ...
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Roche has announced that the Canadian Health Authority has approved the use of its PCR based mycoplasma detection test MycoTOOL for release testing of one of its biological products. Accepted by the FDA at the end of 2012, the test can ...
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NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex flooring product and Invision brand modular ...
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Carryout and kitchen prep packaging designer and manufacturer in the US, Pak-Sher has launched new bakery/deli interfolded sheet, Envirosheets made from 8 to 19 recycled milk jugs. Claimed to be produced using 100% post-consumer recycled ...
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A team of researchers from the Government Chemist Programme, in LGC, have developed a new control material to help labs identify false positives when monitoring imports for genetically modified (GM) rice in food products originating from ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific, a US-based healthcare equipment provider, has announced that its SureTect Salmonella Species Assay has received Performance Tested Method from the AOAC Research Institute. The SureTect Salmonella species PCR ...
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Inostics, a molecular diagnostics firm providing blood-based mutation testing, has received the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) license for its clinical laboratory in Baltimore. The receipt of the license would mark a ...
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Sunshine Makers, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA, the manufacturers of the Simple Green line of household and industrial cleaning products, introduce a more sustainable package and delivery system for their family of concentrated cleaning ...
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