Fingerprint instead of Blood Sample

Antibody tests on fingerprints to detect drugs and diseases

21-May-2007 - To this day, fingerprints are just the thing when a perpetrator needs to be arrested or a person needs to be identified. British scientists working with David A. Russell also want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases. As the ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Online Environmental Resource Center for Trace Element

16-May-2007 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced the launch of its information-rich Environmental Resource Center for trace element analysis, the most recent addition to its collection of online resources for industry professionals. According to the company, the comprehensive forum is an essential source ...

Revealing Photographs of DNA

Ultrasensitive DNA detection with photographic paper

14-May-2007 - Ultrasensitive genetic detection methods could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, all the techniques until now have been far too technically demanding for broad application. Munich researchers led by Thomas Carell have now developed a very simple method based on the ...

Eurofins launches cutting-edge biomarker discovery and bioanalytical services laboratory in Aurora, Colorado

11-May-2007 - Eurofins announced that their newly-established laboratory in the Fitzsimons Biotech Park in Aurora, Colorado is now fully operational and, operating under the Eurofins | Medinet brand, extends the Eurofins network of central laboratories in Europe, Asia and the US to provide services for our ...

Eurofins goes fully operational with new Central Laboratory in Singapore

08-May-2007 - Eurofins announced that their recently established Central Laboratory in Singapore is now fully operational and, operating under the Eurofins | Medinet brand, extends its network of central laboratories in Europe and the US into Asia to provide safety testing for our customers in the ...

GE Healthcare grants license for biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids to NorDiag ASA

07-May-2007 - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Elecrtic, announced that it has completed a license agreement with NorDiag ASA, granting NorDiag ASA access to GE Healthcare patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. The license, which is valid for the lifetime of the patents, grants NorDiag ASA ...

Beckman Coulter and Biosite Amend Definitive Acquisition Agreement

Strategic Rationale and Economics of Combination Support Increased Price of $90 per Biosite Share

04-May-2007 - Beckman Coulter, Inc. announced that it has entered into a revised merger agreement with Biosite, Inc. Under the terms of the revised merger agreement, Beckman Coulter will acquire all of Biosite's outstanding common stock in a cash tender offer for $90.00 per share, or approximately $1.67 ...

VWR International, Inc. to be acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners

04-May-2007 - VWR International, Inc., a portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CD&R), announced that CDRV Investors, Inc., its parent company, has entered into a definitive agreement that will result in VWR being acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP). The transaction is expected to be ...

ESA Expands European Customer Service

03-May-2007 - ESA Biosciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences, Inc., has opened an expanded service and support centre in St. Neots, UK, to provide an enhanced level of customer service and support throughout Europe for its expanding base of HPLC Detectors. This follows the recent opening of ESA's ...

Gene Lab To Go

Reasonably priced and battery-driven: a pocket PCR device

02-May-2007 - A huge number of diagnostic techniques are based on PCR (the polymerase chain reaction): the use of PCR allows even the tiniest amounts of genetic material to be duplicated so that it can be analyzed. This should make things such as the rapid and reliable identification of a dangerous infectious ...