Microbiology News: clinical, Oct 2016

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Microbiology News: clinical, Oct 2016

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Enterobacterial Resistance to Polymyxin Detected by Colour Change Test

25 Oct 2016 | ClinicalOther

ELITechGroup Microbiology have released its new Rapid Polymyxin NP test, a rapid, reliable and cost-effective way to detect polymyxin (polymyxin E or Colistin, polymyxin B) resistant Enterobacteriaceae using colour change in the presence of colistin. more...

Pipetting Tips - straight as a plate or as uneven as a mountain range?

25 Oct 2016 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

For perfectly aligned pipette tips every time - INTEGRA GripTips never loosen, leak or fall off, the special design ensures tips cannot be overloaded and that all tips on the multichannel pipette are fitted to exactly the same height so improving the reproducibility and accuracy of your pipetting. more...

Automated Hepatitis Viral Load Testing Offered at LabCorp

25 Oct 2016 | Clinical

Roche's new cobas® 8800 system automates the entire molecular diagnostics testing process—from specimen prep and nucleic acid extraction/purification to PCR amplification and detection - the first high-throughput molecular system approved by the FDA for CLIA moderately complex testing. more...

Gosselin™ Pipette Controller Includes Membrane Filter and Autoclavable Holder

21 Oct 2016 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

The Gosselin™ Pipette Controller is suited for pipetting tasks in microbiological sample preparation and testing, the controller incorporates a PTFE membrane filter (0.2 µm and 0.45 µm) together with an autoclavable silicone pipette holder prevents sample contamination issues. more...

Sterile DNase/RNase-free Filter Tips Helps Avoid Contamination

18 Oct 2016 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Rainin Pipet-Lite™ XLS pipettes and filter tips are a popular choice for researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, USA, where they are used for virus work, particularly experiments involving DNA and RNA studies, and it is essential to avoid any potential for contamination. more...

Flu is Coming! Are You Ready?

18 Oct 2016 | ClinicalOther

Medical Wire's ∑-Virocult® is suitable for the recovery and detection of viruses whether you are using molecular diagnostics or conventional culture techniques, they are also available to kit manufacturers. more...

ABRx™ Antibiotic Resistance Panel Detects 17 Resistance Genes

11 Oct 2016 | Clinical

ABRx Panel detects clinically relevant gene variants directly from clinical samples without the need for time-consuming bacterial isolation and identification. more...

New BD Veritor™ Plus System for Secure, Traceable POC

11 Oct 2016 | Clinical

The BD Veritor is a hand held reader of Point of Care immunoassays which offers improved QC by recording user ID, specimen ID and test kit lot to improve traceability and decreases manual documentation. more...

APAS® Can Screen and Sort Up To 200 Clinical Plates Per Hour

10 Oct 2016 | Clinical

The APAS® is a stand-alone culture plate reader that screens and sorts plates into significant and non-significant growth, capable of sorting up to 200 plates per hour the system has received FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II medical device. more...

New Motorized Tip Spacing Pipettes

10 Oct 2016 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Automatically change spacing of pipette tips

Available in 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-channel versions, INTEGRA's VOYAGER II pipettes are the only commercially available pipette range where the tip spacing can be changed electronically, up to 40 individual custom programs can be saved making often repeated pipetting protocols even easier to implement. more...

Priorclave Features Energy Efficient Autoclaves at Medica

05 Oct 2016 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Priorclave will be exhibiting their range of low energy laboratory autoclaves at Medica 2016, in Dusseldorf 14th - 17th November, an autoclave with a clear sided panel will allow stand visitors to see inside and view the clean, structured lines of the build. more...