Urine specimen stabilizer, 5/14
May 2014—The Vacuette Urine CCM Tube from Greiner Bio-One is an evacuated tube, which contains a stabilizer powder that keeps the urine sample stable up to 48 hours at 20°–25°C.
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Vidas C. difficile GDH, 5/14
May 2014—BioMérieux launched its Vidas C. difficile GDH for automated detection of GDH, a specific enzyme produced by C. difficile. Vidas C. difficile GDH is the first automated immunoassay cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
GI panel submitted for 510(k) clearance, 5/14
May 2014—BioFire Diagnostics submitted the FilmArray Gastrointestinal Panel to the FDA for 510(k) clearance.
Siemens, NKF enter strategic alliance, 5/14
May 2014—Siemens Healthcare and the National Kidney Foundation entered into a strategic alliance to increase awareness of the importance of albumin-to-creatinine ratio testing in high-risk individuals, with the goal of improving diagnosis and identifying kidney disease early in its course. Siemens and NKF will also help put the new clinical recommendations into practice.
Lynch syndrome diagnostic tests, 5/14
May 2014—Quest Diagnostics is offering new pathology and blood tests for identifying and assessing an individual’s risk of Lynch syndrome.
Bone marrow tissue stain, 5/14
May 2014—Dako added the Jenner-Wright Giemsa stain to its Artisan Link portfolio of automated stains. The stain is designed to provide clear differentiation and detail of the hematopoietic cells in bone marrow tissue samples for the diagnosis of cancer, aplastic anemia, and myelofibrosis.
Hsp70 ELISA kit, 5/14
May 2014—Enzo Life Sciences now offers the Amp’d HSP70 High Sensitivity ELISA Kit for detecting both baseline and upregulated levels of Hsp70 (Hsp72).
FISH upgrades for improved virtual analysis, 5/14
May 2014—Clarient Diagnostic Service, a GE Healthcare company, upgraded its fluorescence in situ hybridization technologies to improve virtual analysis of test results for leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, and myeloma.
Coulter Counter, 5/14
May 2014—The Multisizer 4e Coulter Counter from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has a 10-µm aperture for obtaining accurate count, size, and mass distribution for particles and cells ranging from 0.2 to 1,600 µm. Digital pulse processing provides high-resolution analysis in up to 400 channels.
Distribution agreement
May 2014—Copan Diagnostics announced an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to distribute the Copan WASP, a walk-away specimen processor, in the United States.