Infectious Diseases – Products

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced availability of Brilliant III Ultra-Fast QPCR and QRT-PCR Master Mix Kits, offering significantly reduced cycling time and superior sensitivity without compromising the accuracy and reproducibility of nucleic acid quantification.

Agilent Automation Solutions releases a new applications bulletin that describes an automated system for characterization of pathogens.

The RX monza is a compact, semi-automated, clinical chemistry analyser for routine and specialised diagnostic testing with an ever expanding test menu, now including HbA1c.

The new high volume kits feature 160 reactions per kit with a simplified protocol.

New cobas 4800 System designed to increase laboratory efficiency and medical value.

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are showing promise in many areas, including regenerative medicine.

A large international team of researchers recently published the 240-megabase DNA sequence of Phytophthora infestans, a robust parasitic water mold responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, in Nature (1).

A study published this month in the journal Tissue Antigens reports that researchers at Roche Molecular Systems (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) in Pleasanton, CA have used high-throughput sequencing technology from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, to carry out high-resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotyping in research samples.

Stuart extends its excellent range of benchtop science equipment with the new SCF1 Spinner, for centrifugation of microfuge tubes at 6,000rpm.

Agilent announces a new technical poster describing a customized, automated flow cytometry screening system for cell based screening.