Date: 05/04/2020 HERCULES, Calif. –Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that its SARS-CoV-2 Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) test kit has been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The SARS-CoV-2 Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) test runs... Read more
RENO, Nevada (April 30, 2020) —Hamilton Company and Zymo Research Corporation today announced that the MagEx STARlet assay ready workstation is now available pre-scripted with the Quick-DNA/RNA™ Viral MagBead Kit protocol to extract pure DNA/RNA from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The jointly developed automated solution offers significant advantages compared to manual processing of samples via traditional time-consuming methods such as... Read more
Read the original press release here St. Louis, MO (April 27 2020) – Leinco Technologies, Inc., a premier developer and manufacturer of leading-edge recombinant proteins, antibodies, conjugates and provider of custom manufacturing services to the diagnostic and biopharmaceutical industries, today announced an agreement with Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to scale up production of its most... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches CE/IVD Marked Immunosuppressants Panel for the Cascadion SM Clinical Analyzer The Thermo Scientific Cascadion SM Clinical Analyzer and Cascadion SM Immunosuppressants Panel now available for accurate measurement of four immunosuppressant drugs in whole blood VANTAA, Finland, April 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced today that... Read more
(BROOKLYN, NY – April 22, 2020) – Zymo Research Corp, a California-based life science reagent company and Opentrons Labworks, Inc, makers of affordable and easy-to-use lab robotics, have partnered to create a robust engine for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing. As the COVID-19 crisis persists, the need for high-throughput, fast turn-around, and affordable testing platforms will become... Read more
Caption: BSL-3/-4 labs are welcome to apply for CytoSMART Lux2 live-cell imaging system. To download this image, click here. 22 April 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands – CytoSMART Technologies is to donate 100 mini live-cell imaging systems to researchers in high containment labs worldwide. Labs working to combat COVID-19 will benefit from this initiative, as CytoSMART aims to reduce the huge... Read more
Date: 04/21/2020 HERCULES, Calif. –Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the commercial launch of its SARS-CoV-2 Total Ab test, a blood-based immunoassay kit to help determine if an individual has developed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus associated with COVID-19 disease. Bio-Rad has... Read more
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Minneapolis, MN, (April 21, 2020) – AMETEK MOCON’s Baseline product group, a leading provider of industrial gas chromatographs and gas sensors, is prioritizing support for specific industries to ensure healthcare supplies continue to be delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company will focus on medical personal protective equipment (PPE) suppliers and sterilizers... Read more
Oxford, UK (21 April 2020) – PrecisionLife has confirmed it is extending its relationships with some of the largest COVID-19 collaborative research projects and is now offering free use of its unique analytics platform and support from its data and biomedical science teams to the on-going collaborative efforts of the medical research community in the fight... Read more
Biotech manufacturer recommended for continued certification to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 Madison, WI USA. (April 17, 2020) Promega Corporation announced today it successfully completed its first ever fully remote quality surveillance assessment and is recommended for continued certification to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the British Standards Institution (BSI) completed its six-day... Read more