Microbiology News: clinical, Jan 2021

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Microbiology News: clinical, Jan 2021

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Synthetic Molecular Standards for SARS-CoV-2

29 Jan 2021 | Clinical

ATCC release 3 quantitative synthetic molecular constructs for SARS-CoV-2 assay development; eliminating the need to culture viruses in the laboratory, and are safe to use under BSL-1 conditions. more...

BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test Shows High Sensitivity on Culture-Positive Specimens

28 Jan 2021 | Clinical

The CDC COVID-19 Response Team & Epidemic Intelligence Service has published an evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Card. The test showed high-sensitivity on culture-positive specimens. more...

Rapid Test Ag 2019-nCov: Prevent COVID-19 from Spreading!

25 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Rapid Lateral Flow SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test from Prognosis Biotech

The rapid antigen test of ProGnosis Biotech shows high sensitivity and specificity, has a CE-Mark and is included in the list of approved COVID diagnostic tests by the European Commission, the German BfArM and the Italian Ministry of Health. more...

New CE-Marked Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody Test

22 Jan 2021 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

Beckman Coulter has announced CE-marking for its quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody test. The assay is designed to detect antibodies to the spike protein of SARS CoV-2, which is the design of the vaccines on the market today. more...

New Automated Whole-Blood Pipetting Workstation to Help Detect Latent TB

22 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Automate Pre-Analytical Processing of Whole Blood Samples

Tecan has launched the Fluent® Mix and Pierce Workstation to provide end-to-end automation for whole blood pipetting in clinical environments. This will optimize sample preparation for latent tuberculosis (TB) testing with the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assay. more...

Italy, Japan & Brazil Show Confidence in SARS-CoV-2 Microfluidic Rapid Antigen Test

22 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Microfluidic rapid antigen test for sars-cov-2 the virus that causes Covid-19

LumiraDx's microfluidic point-of-care antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 is now available in over 30 countries, including US, Japan & Brazil. The test is designed for nasal or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and a turnaround time-to-result of 12 minutes. more...

Use Artificial Intelligence to Streamline Your Culture Plate Workflow With APAS Independence

19 Jan 2021 | Clinical

AI sorts culture plates postive negative or review

Bringing AI based automation to microbiology labs, the APAS® Independence automatically reads, interprets and sorts microbiology culture plates, successfully identifying plates with no significant growth, significant growth and those needing further review. Use the Automation Justification Tool. more...

COPAN Automation Saves Costs and Increases Efficiency as Shown in Multicenter Study

19 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Full microbiology lab automation from COPAN

Recent multicenter study examines laboratories of various size, location, patient mix and acuity demonstrating that implementation of COPAN automation results in cost savings and increased efficiency and productivity for the laboratory. more...

Special Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Automation

19 Jan 2021 | Food & BeverageClinicalLaboratory EquipmentMicrobiome

This special focus on Artificial Intelligence and Automation brings you the latest Industry/Quality 4.0 technologies designed to make human-robot collaboration easy, to improve productivity and deliver cost-savings for your microbiology lab. more...

Panel of Recombinant Variants for COVID-19 Antigen Test Development & Validation

19 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Sino Biological has developed a panel of recombinant RBD/Spike and nucleocapsid protein variants based on Brazil, South Africa and UK lineages. It is now critical to assess if antigen tests can detect these variants due to N-protein mutations. more...

Accelerated Computing & AI to Sequence DNA/RNA

19 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Oxford Sequencer supported by Super computer

Oxford Nanopore Technologies and NVIDIA are collaborating this year to integrate the NVIDIA DGX Station A100 into Oxford Nanopore’s ultra-high-throughput sequencing system, PromethION. more...

Integra's Electronic Pipettes Make Your Lab Life Easier

18 Jan 2021 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal CareMicrobiome

Voyager adjustable spacing electronic pipette screen

It takes just minutes to find out about the intelligent features of the lightweight VIAFLO electronic pipette and VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette by viewing INTEGRA's short video tutorials. more...

Perform Multiplex SARS-CoV-2 & Winter Virus Testing Using Saliva Specimen

15 Jan 2021 | Clinical

COVID-19 and winter virus testing with saliva

The Seegene Allplex™ multiplex assays for COVID-19 & winter viruses can now detect viral RNA directly from a saliva specimen. These new and improved Allplex tests are CE-marked and require no nucleic acid extraction step. more...

Nepal Uses CRISPR in COVID-19 Testing Strategy

14 Jan 2021 | Clinical

The Nepalese Government will begin using the CRISPR SARS-CoV-2 kit as part of its COVID-19 testing strategy after a generous donation from a non-profit organization established by the test kit manufacturer. more...

New All-in-One Test for COVID-19/Flu/RSV

13 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Detect COVID-19 RSV and Flu with one test

TCA/GENETWORx has launched a RT-PCR test to detect COVID-19, RSV and Flu from just one sample. Patients or providers can be informed of the result faster via the Aura digital platform. more...

FDA Issues Alert on Mutated Variants Avoiding Detection in COVID-19 Testing

11 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Three FDA Authorized Tests Impact by SARS-CoV-2 Variant

The US FDA has issued an alert regarding SARS-CoV-2 viral mutation to health care providers and clinical laboratory staff. The alert identifies three tests, which have EUA, that might be imapcted by the variants in circulation. more...

COVID-19 Test Manufacturers Advance to Finals in XPRIZE Competition

11 Jan 2021 | Clinical

The $6 million XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing prize, a competition to create newer, higher standards of COVID-19 testing to help society safely return to everyday activities has announced 20 finalists into the next stage, concluding in February 2021. more...

Rapid Identifier in Suspected Sepsis Cases Takes Just 30 Minutes for Result

11 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Bruker MBT Sepsityper rapid identification

Bruker has announced FDA clearance for its MBT Sepsityper Kit US IVD that enables rapid, specific detection of many cases of bacteremia-induced sepsis to assist infectious disease specialists in potentially life-saving decisions. more...

New Synthetic RNA Control for UK Variant Strain of SARS-CoV-2

05 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Mutations in the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 have made some S-gene PCR tests invalid. Twist Bioscience is now offering an RNA control for labs to check the validity of their RT-PCR tests. This new control adds to Twist Bioscience's range of SARS-CoV-2 reagents. more...

The Role of LIMS in Supporting ISO 17025 Accreditation (Whitepaper)

05 Jan 2021 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Autoscribe Informatics' new white paper examines the role of LIMS in supporting ISO 17025 accreditation. The white paper explores how a LIMS can play a key role in achieving, maintaining, and benefiting from ISO 17025 accreditation. more...

EC Issues Rapid Antigen Test Guidelines

04 Jan 2021 | Clinical

The European Commission (EC) has put forward rules to ensure the uniform use, validation and recognition of rapid antigen tests in the EU and signed a contract with Abbott and Roche to provide 20 million rapid antigen test kits to member states more...

WESAIL COVID-19 Ag & Ab Tests Now Added to Lists of Approved Kits

04 Jan 2021 | Clinical

CE Marked COVID-19 Antigen and Antibody Tests Approved

Rapid COVID-19 Antigen and Antibody Test Kits from WESAIL have now been added to the list of approved kits by Ministero della Salute (the Health Department, Italy), Paul-Ehrlich-Institut and the European Commission. more...

Sino Biological Offers Collection of Recombinant Antigens for New Spike N501Y Mutation

01 Jan 2021 | Clinical

Sino Biological has produced a collection of recombinant antigens for new variants of SARS-CoV-2. The reagents can be used to evaluate the efficacy of antibodies and vaccination. more...

Fijifilm Pyrostar testing critical water used in the reprocessing of medical devices

SGL Plates and Culture Media for Pharmaceutical Microbiology

QC Standards Controls and Proficiency Testing Schemes

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