National Institutes of Health(NIH),under the SHIFT initiative,has granted two Small Business Innovative Research(SBIR)Phase I awards,totaling$800k over 2 years,to Circulomics. Circulomics will use the grants to develop its Ligo-miR ...
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VWR International has entered into an agreement to distribute Illumina's qPCR products in the US. The products include Eco real-time PCR instrument, designed to perform any qPCR application directly on their bench top, and NuPCR ...
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Kl ckner Pentaplast has announced the extension of its PentaformSmartCycle film product line to include Pentaform SmartCycle PET films comprising 100% post-consumerrecycled (PCR) content. According to the German packaging films producer, ...
Qiagen has won the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its new molecular companion diagnostic product, therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR test kit, to provide guidance on the use of Erbitux for approximately 110,000 US patients with ...
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Seegene, a South Korea-based medical devices company, has developed QuantPlex RV-16 Assay for the quantification of 21 respiratory viral pathogens associated with respiratory diseases. The multiplex quantification assay will enable ...
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Roche has unveiled GS GType TET2/CBL/KRAS and GS GType RUNX1 primer set for high sensitivity genetic variant detection in leukemia samples. The sequence-based assays utilize the company's 454 GS Junior and GS FLX systems and enable deep ...
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Quest Diagnostics has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Simplexa C difficile Universal Direct Test on the 3M Integrated Cycler. The test, which uses a proprietary chemistry that eliminates the need for nucleic-acid extraction, is ...
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Quidel has gained CE mark for the Quidel Molecular Direct C difficile Tox A/B assay to detect toxigenic Clostridium difficile bacterial DNA. The Quidel Molecular Direct C difficile Tox A/B assay kits consist of an extraction-free, ...
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Quidel has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Quidel Molecular Influenza A+B assay for the detection of influenza A and B for use with Cepheid's SmartCycler PCR system. Quidel received FDA clearance in December 2011 to run its Quidel ...
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JS Genetics has launched a new proprietary buccal swab test, XCAT-KS, to diagnose Klinefelter syndrome (KS) and other male sex chromosome aneuploidies. XCAT-KS is a PCR / pyrosequencing based bloodless test which identifies KS and ...
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ZyGEM has signed an agreement to integrate its enzymatic RNA extraction technology into Quanta Biosciences' kits for quantitative PCR. The companies have kept further terms of the agreement confidential. ZyGEM CEO Paul Kinnon ...
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The Subway restaurant chain has introduced its salad bowls and lids made from 95% post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials. The move forms part of the chain’s proposal to make its restaurants and operations environmentally responsible. ...
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Poole Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile fibers and specialist in virgin polyester fibers, recycled fibers, heavy denier, and nonwovens fibers, announced that it has launched a new Full-Circle program for its EcoSure ...
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MO BIO Laboratories has introduced a new nucleic acid purification tool for isolation of DNA from stool, gut material and biosolids. The tool, PowerFecal DNA Isolation kit, uses the isolated DNA to characterize the human microbiome. ...
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