Month: October 2009

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the award of $17 million to fund projects to fight costly and dangerous health care-associated infections, or HAIs.

ZyGEM Corp Ltd and Phthisis Diagnostics have announced that they have entered into an agreement to develop products enabling the detection of infectious pathogens in complex samples, such as stool, blood, and water.

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics announces FDA approval of the VITROS hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) assay for use on the VITROS 5600 Integrated and VITROS 3600 immunodiagnostic systems.

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire certain diagnostic businesses of Biotest AG for 45 Million Euros. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed at this time.

Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about an assay, strand-specific quantitative real-time PCR (ssqPCR), increasingly being used to detect and measure replicating viral RNA in infected cells and tissues. The method most labs are using for ssqPCR is unreliable.