Archive for the ‘Diagnostics’ Category
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Despite an uptick in cardiology and diabetes testing and double-digit gains in management of hospital-acquired infections, Europe's IVD industry registered only 2% overall revenue growth in 2010, down from 3% the previous year, reports the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA). Short-sighted government attempts to balance budgets by limiting reimbursement of ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
This summer, US FDA released its draft guidance document regarding companion diagnostics. In an effort to provide further clarity on this, the IVD Technology editors will hold a special webcast on the regulation of companion diagnostics next week. The featured speaker will be Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield, PhD, the Director of ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
From the wire: Advances in microchip technology someday may enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases—sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer cells—from just one drop of blood. But fabricating such “lab-on-chip” designs—tiny, integrated diagonistic sensor arrays on surfaces as small as a square centimeter—is a ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
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A “smart” petri dish developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA) incorporates a lens-free microscopy imaging platform that enables the continuous imaging of cell cultures without removing them ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
IVD Technology Editor-in-Chief Richard Park authored a comprehensive overview of the IVD industry, in which he concludes that the IVD market is resilient and will not be stalled by difficult economic conditions. "IVD manufacturers continue to develop and release faster, more accurate and more-effective diagnostic devices," he writes. ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Diagnostica Europe 2012, a unique exhibition designed exclusively for the clinical diagnostics and life science research industries, will debut in March at Messe Stuttgart. The exhibition is organised by UBM Canon and will run from 13th to 15th March 2012. Concurrent with Diagnostica Europe will be the MEDTEC Europe 2012 ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
A newly developed technology that uses a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles has a range of potential applications, including medical diagnostics. The technology could produce innovative sensors and analytical devices for lab-on-chip applications, or miniature instruments that perform measurements normally requiring ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Carclo plc announced today that it has formed a new company to license its enabling technology to customers in the point-of-care (POC) diagnostics arena. Carclo Diagnostic Solutions Ltd has developed a proof-of-concept, disposable electronic testing platform that takes a sample of body fluid and provides a permanent digital output of ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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Engineers at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new microfluidic device that can detect single cancer cells and viruses in a blood sample. It is about the size of a dime and is made of carbon nanotubes with attached antibodies. Cells touch ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Just days after the debut of the iPad 2, the intriguingly named Room4 announced that its multiplatform virtual slide application was demonstrated on the upgraded tablet. The demo happened during a lecture at a CATAI/UNESCO meeting regarding the use of iPhone and 4G mobile phones in telemedicine.
The application ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
Critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor that would enable rapid detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA, this week by Panasonic. The items included a miniaturised pump for on-chip pressure generation, a micropillar filter optimised for DNA ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
A biosensing protocol developed by Japanese researchers may offer a rapid, highly sensitive, inexpensive and homogeneous means for detecting biorecognition processes. The novel method could also eliminate the use of substrates or magnetic sensors in point-of-care medical diagnostics.
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