Quest Diagnostics Introduces Comprehensive Opioid Therapy Genetic Test Based on CYP450 Biomarker License with Transgenomic

MADISON, N.J., -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced the availability of a new lab-developed genetic test to aid the delivery of personalized opioid pain-relieving treatment. It is believed to be the first clinical lab to offer testing for variants in all cytochrome P450 (CYP450) genes known [...]

Ceram and CyberChrome Create Package to Monitor and Certify Spectrophotometers

Ceram has collaborated with CyberChrome to create a package which facilitates the monitoring and certification of spectrophotometers. Ceram’s Colour Standards and CyberChrome’s OnColor Instrument Performance software enables the verification, monitoring, optimisation and certification of spectrophotometers, and hence assurance of accurate colour matches. The combined Ceram-CyberChrome test provides documentation which can be used to validate the [...]

GE, University of Washington to Develop “Diagnostics-on-Demand” Medical Device for Infectious Disease Detection

NISKAYUNA, NY, – You’ve heard of on-demand TV, now imagine on-demand medical diagnosis – anytime, anywhere in the world. Scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), are working with a team based at the University of Washington to develop a new medical device, the size of [...]

Highly efficient molecular probe developed for real-time PCR monitoring

Eprobe®, a highly efficient and reliable fluorescent probe for PCR DNA amplification techniques and DNA analysis in hybridization experiments, has been developed by researchers from RIKEN and Japanese firm K.K.DNAFORM. This technology will enable the development of new, advanced assays for DNA-based genetic testing and help to bring the benefits of genome-wide sequencing studies to [...]

Nanounity Announces That the Delmic SECOM Correlative Microscopy System Has Won a 2013 Microscopy Today Innovation Award.

Each year, the publication, Microscopy Today under the stewardship of its editor, Dr Charles Lyman from Lehigh University, make awards at the annual Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting. In 2013, the meeting is being held in Indianapolis with awards going to companies in the following product areas: light microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy and microanalysis. [...]

Novel full-range lentivirus platform from widely accessible core facility

SIRION Biotech announced today its novel lentivirus portfolio for the most sophisticated in vitro applications. Besides its (1) non-toxic transduction enhancer coined LentiBOOST(TM) , SIRION Biotech offers (2) premade lentivirus vectors and (3) custom ser-vices. The latter allows for all possible modifications and applications ranging from complex and multiple genes expression to TET- inducible all-in-one [...]

FLIR Systems’ Trace Detection Mass Spectrometer Now Able to Detect Synthetic Drugs with Expanded Library

PORTLAND, OR, -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today that it has expanded the drug target library for the Griffin 824 Trace Detection Mass Spectrometer to include common designer drugs found in bath salts and herbal incense (K2/Spice) products, in addition to existing illegal drugs. Between 2009 and 2012, the global number of reported [...]

Product Now Available for Download on Google Play, iTunes Store or www.commodityregs.com

MILFORD, Mass. –– Waters Corporation (WAT: NYSE) today announced that VICAM®, a Waters® Business, introduced a first of its kind Mobile Application that provides instant access to global mycotoxin regulations. The App, available for download on Google Play, iTunes Store or www.commodityregs.com, enables instant searchable results for mycotoxin limits by geography and commodity or food [...]

Queen’s University in Canada selects Linkam temperature stages to characterize ferroelectric liquid crystals

Tadworth, UK - Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, have been used as temperature stage suppliers to Queen’s University in Canada for ten years to study the properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals. The research program of Professor Robert Lemieux and his Kingston, Ontariobased team focuses on the rational design of chiral and [...]

Photometric Analysis Expands at Avomeen Analytical Services with New Spectrophotometer

Avomeen harnesses the power of light as the newest tool for their laboratory complex. The addition of a Ci4200 Spectrophotometer provides additional analytical capabilities from basic density testing to exacting colorimetry. This tool allows Avomeen to continue to be at the forefront of research in deformulation and material identification as well as quality control for [...]

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