At the annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) meeting Hamilton Robotics has announced a partnership with Coastal Genomics to launch the new Microlab® NIMBUS® Select workstation with Ranger Technology. The new ...
Since it was first identified in the United States last May, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) has created significant losses to some pork producers in many parts of the country. Manure is a primary way the virus spreads from pig to ...
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PrimeraDx, a molecular diagnostics company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ICEPlex C. difficile assay kit and the ICEPlex system. The ICEPlex system is a multiplex real-time PCR system ...
NanoString Technologies, a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, has announced the availability of the nCounter Dx analysis system for high-complexity, CLIA-certified laboratories. ...
Tags: NanoString, DX Analysis System
Foundation Medicine, molecular information company, has announced that results from a 24-month, multi-institution collaboration demonstrating the analytic validation of its cancer genomic profiling assay, FoundationOne, were published in ...
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Diagnovus has announced the launch of a gene expression assay, ENGAUGE-cancer-DLBCL, designed for use in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The assay, which combines patients International Prognostic Index (IPI) score ...
Tags: Diagnovus, B-Cell lymphoma, Medicine
HTG Molecular Diagnostics has obtained ISO 13485:2003 certification for the design, manufacture, and distribution of its patented qNPA technology-based products and services used in the analysis of gene expression. qNPA molecular ...
Tags: ISO Certification, analysis of gene expression, medical technology
Affymetrix has launched SensationPlus FFPE Amplification and 3' IVT Labeling Kit (SensationPlus FFPE Reagent Kit). SensationPlus FFPE Reagent Kit, which comprises RNA amplification and labeling modules, is designed to enable gene ...
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NanoString Technologies has reported positive results from a second validation study of its breast cancer assay based on the PAM50 gene expression signature. The CE-marked breast cancer assay is designed to provide a subtype ...
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Lab21 has entered into a collaboration agreement to develop polymerase chain reaction-based assays on BD Diagnostics' automated BD MAX molecular system for a series of oncology markers. The two assays, which will be initially developed, ...
Tags: Lab21, collaboration agreement, BD Diagnostics, reaction-based assays
The Bangladesh government has been asked the high court to impose a ban on the import of food treated with formalin and other poisonous chemicals. The court also asked the government to supply testing kits to all the sea and land ports ...
Tags: poisonous chemicals, formalin, import, FBCCI
BioView and Abbott have entered into a partnership agreement for the development of automated scanning solution to detect rearrangements of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer ...
Tags: BioView, Abbott, automated scanning solution, NSCLC