Departments: Lab & Pharma
07/01/2008
Companion diagnostics and more
Possibilities to co-develop new clinical diagnostic tests for companion diagnostics, metabolic syndrome, oncology and diabetes, are being explored by Siemens Healthcare and …
07/01/2008
21st Century lab automation
Laboratory automation of the 21st century demonstrates, every second, that in the 30 years since labs took their first tentative steps towards automation it has advanced by orders …
07/01/2008
Machine vision technologies
In todays clinical laboratory the technical staff performs quality inspections that are separate and distinct from normal laboratory testing quality control. …
07/01/2008
Automation: a five-year experience
Work procedures have been radically simplified since, over one weekend five years ago, two specialist laboratories owned by Dr Helge Riegel GmbH Medical Supply Centre in …
07/01/2008
Lean principles applied in path labs
Lean Laboratory and Lean Automation are vital ingredients for the efficient and productive running of todays modern pathology laboratories. Automation serves as an essential …
07/01/2008
WMA gains funding to support TB training course
Pharma company Eli Lilly has increased an existing partnership with the World Medical Association (WMA) by granting c. 646,505 euros to expand online training courses for …
06/26/2008
New drug protects against venous blood clots
In the EU blood clots are responsible for killing 544.000 people each year. Rivaroxaban, a new oral given anticoagulant drug from Bayer Healthcare, is significantly more effective …
06/18/2008
Developing new biomarkers for Alzheimers disease diagnosis
Latest estimates predict that the global prevalence of Alzheimer's disease will quadruple by 2050. The EU funded research project "PredictAD" aimed at developing new …
06/17/2008
Leica Microsystems acquires Coretech Holdings Scientific
Leica Microsystems announced in May it acquired the assets of St. Louis, Missouri-based Coretech Holdings and McCormick Scientific, LLC (Coretech), expanding its leading position …
06/16/2008
New medical options by tobacco plants
Bayer and its affiliated firm Icon Genetics developed an own production process which provides the opportunity to make therapeutic proteins from tobacco plants. The pilot plant …
06/03/2008
Clinical biology - "It's time for Euro compatibility"
France - Clinical biology is faced with many internal and external developments, notably advances in medical science, automation, quality assurance, electronic data transmission, …
04/30/2008
The global Research and Development Centre for Life Science
Olympus, which recently opened the global Research and Development Centre for Life Science in Munich, will invest around euro 15m in this project. …
04/30/2008
Lab-cultured cardiac cells
Three types of human heart cells have been grown from cultures derived from embryonic stem cells, by a team of Canadian, US and UK scientists. …
04/30/2008
At home genomic tests for disease risk may be premature
The recent marketing of "at home" genomic tests for disease risk may be premature, according to Dr. Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH, Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial …
04/30/2008
Inhaled TB vaccine
USA - A new tuberculosis vaccine successfully tested at the University of North Carolina (UNC) is easier to administer and store and just as effective as one commonly used …
04/30/2008
Research on small RNA molecules could bring new therapies
The discovery of small RNA molecules and their relevance for gene regulation has dramatically changed our understanding of many essential cellular processes and provides the …
04/30/2008
Analytica 2008
With 121 high level lectures and 65 published posters, Analytica 2008 organised by the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) …
04/30/2008
On the near horizon
The first FDA-approved prescription medication that reduces blood phenylalanine (Phe) levels in patients with Phenylketonuria (PKU) a genetic disorder that prevents the normal …
04/30/2008
Lean principles
Lean Laboratory and Lean Automation are vital ingredients for the efficient and productive running of todays modern Pathology laboratories. Automation serves as an …
04/30/2008
MICROSCIENCE 2008
At the international forefront of microscopy for 169 years, in the past two years, the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) has seen membership increase by 7%. The Society is …
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