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Enterobacterial Resistance to Polymyxin Detected by Colour Change Test

Enterobacterial Resistance to Polymyxin
EnterobacteriaceaeAntibiotic Resistance
25 Oct 2016
ELITechGroup Microbiology have released its new Rapid Polymyxin NP test, a rapid, reliable and cost-effective way to detect polymyxin (polymyxin E or Colistin, polymyxin B) resistant Enterobacteriaceae using colour change in the presence of colistin.

Pipetting Tips - straight as a plate or as uneven as a mountain range?

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Liquid Handling
25 Oct 2016
For perfectly aligned pipette tips every time - INTEGRA GripTips never loosen, leak or fall off, the special design ensures tips cannot be overloaded and that all tips on the multichannel pipette are fitted to exactly the same height so improving the reproducibility and accuracy of your pipetting.

Automated Hepatitis Viral Load Testing Offered at LabCorp

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Hepatitis
25 Oct 2016
Roche's new cobas® 8800 system automates the entire molecular diagnostics testing process—from specimen prep and nucleic acid extraction/purification to PCR amplification and detection - the first high-throughput molecular system approved by the FDA for CLIA moderately complex testing.

Gosselin™ Pipette Controller Includes Membrane Filter and Autoclavable Holder

Gosselin pipette controller
Liquid Handling
21 Oct 2016
The Gosselin™ Pipette Controller is suited for pipetting tasks in microbiological sample preparation and testing, the controller incorporates a PTFE membrane filter (0.2 µm and 0.45 µm) together with an autoclavable silicone pipette holder prevents sample contamination issues.

Sterile DNase/RNase-free Filter Tips Helps Avoid Contamination

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Liquid Handling
18 Oct 2016
Rainin Pipet-Lite™ XLS pipettes and filter tips are a popular choice for researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, USA, where they are used for virus work, particularly experiments involving DNA and RNA studies, and it is essential to avoid any potential for contamination.

Flu is Coming! Are You Ready?

Swabs for flu
InfluenzaSample CollectionSwabs
18 Oct 2016
Medical Wire's ∑-Virocult® is suitable for the recovery and detection of viruses whether you are using molecular diagnostics or conventional culture techniques, they are also available to kit manufacturers.

ABRx™ Antibiotic Resistance Panel Detects 17 Resistance Genes

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Antibiotic Resistance
11 Oct 2016
ABRx Panel detects clinically relevant gene variants directly from clinical samples without the need for time-consuming bacterial isolation and identification.

New BD Veritor™ Plus System for Secure, Traceable POC

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InfluenzaPoint of Care/Need
11 Oct 2016
The BD Veritor is a hand held reader of Point of Care immunoassays which offers improved QC by recording user ID, specimen ID and test kit lot to improve traceability and decreases manual documentation.

APAS® Can Screen and Sort Up To 200 Clinical Plates Per Hour

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AutomationWorkflow Optimization
10 Oct 2016
The APAS® is a stand-alone culture plate reader that screens and sorts plates into significant and non-significant growth, capable of sorting up to 200 plates per hour the system has received FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II medical device.

New Motorized Tip Spacing Pipettes

Automatically change spacing of pipette tips
Liquid Handling
10 Oct 2016
Available in 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-channel versions, INTEGRA's VOYAGER II pipettes are the only commercially available pipette range where the tip spacing can be changed electronically, up to 40 individual custom programs can be saved making often repeated pipetting protocols even easier to implement.

Priorclave Features Energy Efficient Autoclaves at Medica

Ecofriendly Laboratory Autoclave
Autoclaves
05 Oct 2016
Priorclave will be exhibiting their range of low energy laboratory autoclaves at Medica 2016, in Dusseldorf 14th - 17th November, an autoclave with a clear sided panel will allow stand visitors to see inside and view the clean, structured lines of the build.

FDA Clearance for Quidel's Solana® Influenza A+B Assay

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InfluenzaStreptococcus
04 Oct 2016
The Solana Influenza A+B assay is a rapid molecular test for Flu A and B requiring no upfront extraction of RNA and generating an accurate result in approximately 45 minutes now with FDA approval.

Increased Demand for On-Site Calibration of SAS Air Samplers

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03 Oct 2016
Calibration and servicing of the SAS microbial air samplers can be done in Cherwell's own workshop or at customer facilities, which has proved an increasingly popular option as downtime its kept to the absolute minimum.

New Smaller Footprint BD Phoenix™ M50 ID/AST System

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Antibiotic ResistanceAntibiotic SensitivityIdentification
03 Oct 2016
Ideally suited to the smaller lab, the new BD Phoenix™ M50 ID/AST system helps deliver the same rapid, accurate and cost-effective testing as the legacy BD Phoenix™ 100, but within a smaller footprint.

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