Specimen Collection News
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Amerigo Scientific Adds Viral Transport Medium CDC Protocol to Its Distribution List
Amerigo Scientific, a distributor focused on providing critical products and services to biomedical and life science communities, recently cooperates with Life Science Group to distribute the Viral Transport Medium CDC Protocol. This item is designed to aid researchers in their efforts to study the latest virus strains and improve their understanding of the physiology and life cycle of viruses. ...
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Panama Increased Focus on Disposable Medical Supplies Long Before COVID-19
Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for disposable medical supplies in Panama steadily grew at an average rate of 10% over the last decade, due to the growing population and increased public and private investment in the health sector. As a result of the pandemic, Panama has significantly increased spending on disposable medical supplies and is prepared to continue devoting ...
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Urgent Care For Children Collaborates With Visby Medical To Provide New Gold Standard Diagnostic For Sexually Transmitted Infections
Visby Medical, Inc. an innovative diagnostic company, today announced its agreement with Urgent Care for Children (UC4C) to offer the company’s new Sexual Health Click Test to patients for the detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in female patients 14 years of age and older. The device can detect chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis, three of the most common and curable ...
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Review our webinar: Clinical Validation of HPV assays on the NeuMoDx Platform
Self-screen’s Chief Scientific Officer dr. Bart Hesselink talks about the clinical validation of QIAGEN’s next generation HPV screening assay on the NeuMoDxTM Molecular Systems. The NeuMoDxTM 288 and NeuMoDxTM96 Molecular Systems are fully automated continuous random-access analyzers that perform adequately in standardized, high volume cervical cancer HPV screening laboratories. The ...
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What We Can Learn from the Spanish Flu
As the world reels from the recent impact of COVID-19, researchers are examining ways that the past can inform current and future pandemic response. The most widely documented historic pandemic is that of the Spanish flu in 1918, and while a different set of viruses means drastically different outcomes, comparing and contrasting past and present scenarios provides helpful insight into ...
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Cancer Genomic Screening Program LC-SCRUM-Asia Adopts Latest Thermo Fisher Scientific NGS Solutions
LC-SCRUM-Asia, a leading cancer genomic screening program, has selected Thermo Fisher Scientific's Ion Torrent Genexus System* and Oncomine Precision Assay*, a pan-cancer panel, to advance precision medicine in Asia. The next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions will be used in two prospective, observational projects to support the development of future therapeutics and diagnostics for non-small ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Officially Opens New Site for Manufacturing COVID-19 Sample Collection Products
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, officially cut the ribbon on its new $40 million facility in Lenexa, Kansas dedicated to viral transport media (VTM) production. The company is also announcing that the site will continue to expand to meet expected sustained demand for COVID-19 testing. The facility has created more than 300 new full-time jobs and added 120,000 ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific to Co-develop a Global Companion Diagnostic for Low-grade Glioma with Agios Pharmaceuticals
Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced that it has expanded its strategic partnership with Agios Pharmaceuticals by adding the co-development of a second companion diagnostic (CDx) for oncology to their existing agreement. The CDx will leverage the Oncomine Precision Assay, which runs on the new Ion Torrent Genexus System, and will be used globally to identify low-grade glioma (LGG) patients ...
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New Technology Leads to Decreased Hemolysis Rates
Laboratories in an increasing number of U. S. hospitals and healthcare systems are seeing significantly lower hemolysis rates in the blood specimens their staff are collecting with new technology designed for drawing blood with a single-use, sterile device that advances into the vein through a peripheral IV (PIV). The technology, PIVO (Velano Vascular, San Francisco, California), is ...
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Safe and Simple Specimen Transport with SpeciSafe
SpeciSafe secondary packaging containers provide a safe, convenient and economical solution for compliant mailing of biohazardous and clinical specimens. They provide an easy way to meet the requirements of the UN standard UN3373 for transport of biological samples. The extensive SpeciSafe range includes solutions for screw cap microtubes, serum vials, vacuum blood collection tubes, cryovials, ...
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Environmental contamination as a potential source of MRSA transmission
Ehsanollah Ghaznavi-Rad, MSc, of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology at the Universiti Putra Malaysia, and colleagues, report in a research brief in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology on a study they conducted to trace the source of nosocomial transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by investigating the impact of healthcare workers and the ...
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Abbott joins clinton health access initiative in effort to improve infant testing for HIV in Africa
Abbott and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have joined forces to provide HIV testing to infants in all countries working in partnership with the CHAI. A key focus of this cooperation will be sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Health Organization estimates to account for 90 percent of global HIV infections in children. Under terms of the agreement, Abbott will supply its RealTime ...
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