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Introducing new tests to a laboratory’s repertoire

Expert opinions from Dr Heidi Mendoza There are many assessments to make when adding a new test to a lab’s collection. Dr Heidi Mendoza, acting consultant clinical biochemist at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK, shares her experiences and observations of doing exactly that in both ordinary circumstances and during a pandemic, as well as having to […]

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Dutch company 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 workload currently facing researchers on projects vital to controlling the disease. CytoSMART’s unique and compact live-cell microscope films living cell cultures without disturbing their growth or behaviour. The device operates from inside cell culture incubators and is accessible […]

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Insight into serology testing

During the course of the current coronavirus pandemic we have all been aware of the urgent need for nucleic acid testing to identify people currently infected with SARS-CoV-2. The second test that is needed, the serology test, to identify who has had the virus, is much more complex to produce. Dr Andy Lane, commercial director […]

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Dolomite and Mologic collaborate to scale-up manufacture of nanoparticles for Covid-19 diagnostic tests

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses in countries around the globe, there is an urgent need for rapid and reliable point-of-need detection testing. Dolomite Microfluidics and Mologic are working together to accelerate the development and launch of these tests. UK-based Mologic is a leading developer of rapid response diagnostic tests for diseases such as malaria and […]

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Siemens Healthineers awarded FDA approval for RAPIDPoint 500e Blood Gas Analyzer

Siemens Healthineers’s latest critical care testing solution, the RAPIDPoint® 500e Blood Gas Analyzer, has received clearance from the U.S. FDA, and is now available in the U.S., Europe and countries requiring the CE mark. The analyser generates blood gas, electrolyte, metabolite, CO-oximetry, and neonatal bilirubin results, which are used to diagnose and monitor critically ill […]

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Avacta ships SARS-COV-2 Affimer reagents to Cytiva and Adeptrix for diagnostic test development

Avacta Group plc, the developer of Affimer biotherapeutics and reagents, has started shipping Affimer reagents for COVID-19 antigen testing to its diagnostic test development partners. The Group recently reported that it had generated multiple, highly specific Affimer reagents that bind the SARS-COV-2 viral antigen and do not cross-react with SARS, MERS and other closely related […]

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Horizon Discovery releases CRISPR screening for primary human B cells

Cambridge, UK-based Horizon Discovery Group, specializing in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, has released an arrayed CRISPR knockout screening service for primary human B cells to its cell-based screening services. The new B cell screening service, the first of its kind in the market, will enable researchers to […]

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UK consortium set to trial COVID-19 adenoviral vaccine candidate

A research consortium led by the Jenner Institute, Oxford University is set to begin fast-tracked clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine. The adenoviral vaccine candidate, ChAdOx1 nCov-19 (ChAdOx1) is one of five frontrunner vaccines in development around the world, and expected to be the UK’s first COVID-19 vaccine. Developed at the Jenner Institute, ChAdOx1 is […]

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Siemens starts worldwide shipping of total antibody test for COVID-19

Siemens Healthineers announced late May that it is now shipping worldwide its laboratory-based total antibody test to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibodies in blood. The test received the CE mark and data has demonstrated 100 percent sensitivity and 99.8 percent specificity. The total antibody test allows for identification of patients who […]