Latest Laboratory techniques Stories

LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) will exhibit a diverse portfolio of new diagnostics testing solutions for laboratory and other healthcare professionals in booth #1831 at the AACC/CSCC 2012 Clinical Lab Expo here, July 17-19. The Roche booth will feature technology designed to help diagnostic laboratories do more with less and enhance the medical value they offer to clinicians and their patients. Specific product areas will include...

FREMONT, Calif., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) announced today the commercial launch of MyDesign - an open format product offering for its SmartChip System. The key feature of MyDesign is that it allows customers to dispense their own assays in a variety of configurations, thus enabling an easy and rapid design of new experiments. After loading their custom content on MyDesign SmartChips, customers will be able to perform accurate...

AUSTIN, Texas, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held, GenturaDx, a molecular diagnostics company focused on making nucleic acid testing both affordable and practical for any laboratory. GenturaDx is in late stage development of a fully integrated, highly automated, real-time PCR system that employs a single-use cassette for true sample-to-answer workflow. This new system will make rapid,...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leica Microsystems, a technology leader in microscope and image analysis solutions, announces a strategic transition in its market representation in the Pacific Northwest states. Leica Microsystems distributor Bartels and Stout will no longer be representing the company as a regional dealer in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Leica Microsystems will have a direct sales and service operation and...

HILTON HEAD, S.C. and HERMOSILLO, Mexico, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Silver Scott Mines, Inc. (OTC: SILS.pk) is pleased to announce the following recently received drill assay sample results from the Quitovac Gold Mine Project located near Sonoyta, Sonora Mexico. The company's concession blocks control approximately 14,500 hectares of land (36,250 acres) covering the Quitovac mine and placer gold sites in northwest Sonora. A total of 1723 meters of contracted RC drilling was...

NEW YORK and MONTREAL, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Canwealth Minerals Corporation and partner ICBS Ltd., (OTCPK: ICBT), is pleased to announce results assay sample program for spring 2012, on its Highland Gold, and Highland Gold 2 properties completed. A complete geophysics and geochemistry tests have been completed samples sent for assay to determine the length and width of the mineralized zone. The assay sample program was based on a 100m grid. Drilling will follow immediately...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermal Gradient, Inc., a developer of disposable ultra-fast DNA testing devices, announced today that it has initiated the manufacture of its next generation device. Robert Juncosa, the company's Chief Technology Officer stated, "Our previous generation device was a huge success. It performs PCR, the critical step in almost all DNA tests, in less than eight minutes. This new device is capable of "real-time" PCR, a process used to...

BALTIMORE, Maryland and HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two studies published back-to-back in last week's Nature applied DNA blood testing using the BEAMing technology to detect drug resistance mediated by KRAS mutations in colorectal cancer patients months before treatment failure was observed. The group led by Alberto Bardelli, PhD of the University of Torino, Italy describes the development of secondary resistance mutations to the anti-EGFR monoclonal...

BALTIMORE, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InstantLabs Medical Diagnostics Corporation (InstantLabs®), developer of the portable Hunter Accelerated Real-Time PCR® system, today announced that its Salmonella Species Food Safety Kit has been certified as AOAC Performance-Tested(SM) (AOAC PTM Cert. No. 031202) by the AOAC Research Institute (AOAC-RI) across four key food matrices. The kit has been certified for the identification of Salmonella in foods that are among the most...

In April 2009, the world took notice as reports surfaced of a virus in Mexico that had mutated from pigs and was being passed from human to human. The H1N1 "swine flu," as the virus was named, circulated worldwide, killing more than 18,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States said it was the first global pandemic in more than four decades. Swine flu will not be the last viral mutation to cause a worldwide...