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Planning ahead: looking beyond the initial costs of instrument development

Bringing a novel life sciences or diagnostics instrument to market is a lengthy and costly undertaking, requiring years of planning and execution. Companies understandably focus much of their energy on initial concept development and reducing the...

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Collaborating to alleviate flow cytometry bottlenecks and foster business growth

Designing and developing a novel lab instrument is a massive undertaking, requiring extensive resources and personnel over multiple years. Many companies therefore choose to partner with an OEM instrument developer to free up internal resources,...

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Delivering rapid results at the point of patient care

TOPMEDLAB Medical Technology has developed an innovative, immunofluorescence analyzer to meet point-of-care testing needs. This user-friendly instrument offers rapid results and is easy to maintain, making it ideal for situations where time is of...

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Flexing Automation Capabilities

Many diagnostic laboratories rely on PCR-based tests to identify a range of illnesses, from gastrointestinal and respiratory infections to tropical diseases. However, processing the samples manually can be time consuming and prone to errors,...

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Powering Next Generation Genomics

Spatial genomics is a rapidly growing field, allowing researchers to explore gene expression in the context of tissue location. Vizgen has developed the MERSCOPE® Platform, the first commercial high multiplexing, high resolution in situ solution to...

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Novel methods guiding cancer treatment

Multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable blood cancer, but recent advancements in treatment have significantly improved patient prognosis and quality of life. UK-based specialist diagnostic company The Binding Site has developed a new strategy...

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Racing against a pandemic

The emergence and outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at the end of 2019 has created an urgent need for testing to help limit the spread of COVID-19. AusDiagnostics has used its patented, multiplexed-tandem PCR technology to develop a test...

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Print your own DNA

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe has highlighted the need for the rapid development of new diagnostic tests, therapeutics and vaccines in response to emerging infectious diseases. Advanced gene assembly techniques represent a powerful tool...

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Sensing success

Spanish company Advanced Wave Sensors (AWSensors) is playing a key role in the pan-European Horizon 2020 LiqBiopSens and Catch-U-DNA projects to develop a new liquid biopsy platform for the early detection of colorectal and lung cancers. An...

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Long-read sequencing for improved analysis

Next generation sequencing is now in widespread use throughout the life sciences sector, but the commonly used short-read sequencing methods are often subject to GC base pair bias. Combined with the inherent mapping ambiguity of the short reads,...

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OEM instrument design offers automated patch clamping solution

Ion channels regulate many physiological processes, as well as playing a role in many diseases, making them a target for 20 percent of registered drugs. Patch clamping remains the gold standard assay for investigating ion channels, but the manual...

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Pooling resources

Novartis has a long history of working with Tecan’s Partnering Business for the development of automated workstations for blood banking applications.

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