Month: December 2006

BioTek Instruments Inc will highlight its latest innovations in microplate solutions as a Gold Level Sponsor at LabAutomation 2007 in Palm Springs, Calif, on January 28-30, 2007.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed a new test from Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company, that is designed to screen blood donations for exposure to Chagas’ disease – a tropical, parasitic disease that originates in South America.

Siemens Medical Solutions will partner with leading Alzheimer’s researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to test a new biomarker that could potentially identify the disease before the onset of noticeable symptoms.

In a move that will likely make electronic health records (EHR) more widely adopted, California HealthCare Foundation is reporting that Health Level Seven (HL7) will begin a process to adopt and maintain the EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Specifications (ELINCS).

A large company in the field of in vitro diagnostics, bioMérieux, has announced it will phase out production of microplate immunoassay business at its Durham, NC, facility next year.