New Blood Test Helps Clinicians Pinpoint A Potentially Life-Threatening Sensitization to Insect Stings

New Blood Test Helps Clinicians Pinpoint A Potentially Life-Threatening Sensitization to Insect Stings Thermo Scientific ImmunoCAP Specific IgE Stinging Insect Allergen Components identify patients’ sensitization to specific proteins in insect venom that may cause anaphylaxis and other allergic symptoms PORTAGE, Mich., April 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ImmunoCAP Specific IgE Stinging Insect Allergen Components have been... Read more

HORIBA Scientific Launches FLUOROLOG-QM Modular Research Grade Spectrofluorometer

4th Generation Fluorolog covers the broadest range of luminescence research Piscataway, NJ April 23rd, 2020   HORIBA Scientific, global leader in measurement and analysis solutions for research and industry, and world leader in Fluorescence solutions, is thrilled to announce the debut of the Fluorolog-QM, the 4th generation Fluorolog. The Fluorolog-QM is the fourth generation of the world famous Fluorolog, all... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches CE/IVD Marked Immunosuppressants Panel for the Cascadion SM Clinical Analyzer

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

Bio-Rad Begins Shipping SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Antibody Test That Offers More Than 99 Percent Specificity and 98 Percent Sensitivity

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

Unchained Labs drives Big Lunatic downstream with shockingly accurate protein quantification!

April 21, 2020 – Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics researchers the right tool for the job, launched its new Fundamentals UV/Vis standards and performance verification protocols for the Big Lunatic platform today. These new tools make it a cinch for researchers to confidently use Big Lunatic anywhere in their... Read more

Roche develops new serology test to detect COVID-19 antibodies

The new Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test can support the detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in patients who have been exposed to the virus which causes COVID-19 The detection of these antibodies could help indicate if a person has gained immunity against the virus and inform treatment decisions Roche aims to have this test available by... Read more

Bio-Techne Introduces Replex Capabilities for Simple Western Assays on Jess

APRIL 16, 2020 MINNEAPOLIS, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced the upcoming release of RePlex™ for use on the Jess instrument, a member of the Simple Western™ instrument family. RePlex adds to Jess’s already advanced, fully automated, capillary electrophoresis-based Western blotting capabilities by allowing users to analyze the same sample twice... Read more

QIAGEN launches therascreen BRAF test as companion diagnostic to a BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) based regimen in metastatic colorectal cancer

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, April 15 2020 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced launch of its novel therascreen® BRAF V600E RGQ PCR Kit (therascreen BRAF V600E Kit) following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a companion diagnostic to the BRAF inhibitor, BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib), which the FDA has... Read more

PerkinElmer Launches Solutions to Streamline Analysis for Labs in Pharmaceuticals, Semiconductors, Biomonitoring, Food and Materials

Multi-Quadrupole ICP-MS, FT-IR and automation innovations provide testing and research performance, flexibility and ease of use WALTHAM, Mass. – April 15, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today expanded its analysis and automation portfolio for quality, safety and content testing. Geared for pharmaceutical, semiconductor, biomonitoring, food, materials... Read more