Advanced Analytical Reveals New Platform for Rapid Genotypic Identification of Microorganisms at ASM 2009

...hin the pharmaceutical, life science, and personal care/OTC markets. The company's product portfolio includes instruments for the rapid detection and enumeration of microbes by flow cytometry, and the parallel analysis of pharmaceutical compounds, biomolecules, proteins, DNA, RNA and carbohydrates by capillary ...

Quest Diagnostics Discovers New Genetic Mutations Affecting Cystic Fibrosis Screening

...ances of "allele drop-out," or failure to detect a targeted mutation, for an aberrancy rate of less than 0.01%. "We concluded that the recognition and enumeration of such variants along with clinical information in CF testing is valuable in avoiding false-positive and false-negative results," Dr. Pratt said. ...

NRL partners with industry to develop compact biosensor for wide-ranging applications

...ristic of the NRL-developed assays is that the size of the microbead labels allows for either magnetoelectronic detection with GMR sensors, or optical enumeration with image processing software via a standard low-power microscope. The detection sensitivity under each method is nearly identical. However, there ar...

Inverness Medical Innovations Presents the pima(TM) Point-of-Care CD4 Instrument at ICASA 2008

... initial application of the instrument will be a first of its kind CD4 cell enumeration test. The instrument is one of several novel technologies under development... stick blood sample, the platform will be able to deliver not only CD4 cell enumeration but ultimately allow analysis of a wide array of additional markers. ...

Strategic video game improves critical cognitive skills in older adults

... as was their ability to identify rotated objects. The video game training had no effect on their ability to recall a list of words in order, their enumeration ability or their ability to inhibit certain responses, however. There was a correlation between their performance on the game and their improvement...

World Laboratory Washing Machines Market to Reach $84.9 Million by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts

... United States, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, among others. Also provided in the report is an enumeration of recent mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic industry activities. For more details about this research report, please visit http://www.s...

World Neurostimulation Market to Reach $5.2 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts

...ulators (GES). Latent demand patterns in product markets are quantified across the United States, and Rest of World. Also provided in the report is an enumeration of recent mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic industry activities. For more details about this research report, please visit http://www.s...

World Anticoagulants Market to Exceed $12 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

... the United States, Japan, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain, among others for the period 2000-2015. Also provided in the report is an enumeration of recent mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic industry activities. For more details about this research report, please visit http://www...

FDA Clears Cellsearch(TM) Circulating Tumor Cell Test for Monitoring Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients

...arch (AACR) annual meeting in San Diego on April 12-16, 2008. The CellSearch(TM) System is the first diagnostic test to automate the detection and enumeration of CTCs, cancer cells that detach from solid tumors and enter the blood stream, and is a new class of diagnostic tools. The system's specificity, sens...

More Than 250,000 Additional Public Health Workers Needed by 2020 to Avert Public Health Crisis

...hortages, ASPH is calling for an increased federal investment in public health education and training in addition to the coordination of a centralized enumeration effort to adequately understand current and future workforce needs. "An appropriate number of well-trained public health professionals is critical i...

Enumeration in Medical Technology

Inverness Medical Innovations Participates in Meeting on HIV/AIDS with UN Secretary-General

...n its unique Point-of-Care Analyzer upon which a first of its kind CD4 cell enumeration test will be deployed. For individuals who have been confirmed as being H...r stick blood sample, the platform may be able to deliver not only CD4 cell enumeration but ultimately provide diagnostic capabilities for a wide array of addition...

FDA Clears Advanced Test for Monitoring Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

...our patients with metastatic breast cancer over the last year." The CellSearch(TM) System is the first diagnostic test to automate the detection and enumeration of CTCs, cancer cells that detach from solid tumors and enter the blood stream, and is the standard in a new class of diagnostic tools. The system's s...

Enumeration in Medical Products

Lymphocyte Subset Panel 6-Total Lymphocyte Enumeration with CD45RA & CD45RO

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
Company:ARUP Laboratories

Natural Killer Cell Enumeration

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
Company:ARUP Laboratories

Lymphocyte Subset Panel 5-Total Lymphocyte Enumeration

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
Company:ARUP Laboratories

nRBC-Chex for LH nRBC Control

Description:... for LH is a nucleated red blood cell (nRBC) control for evaluating the accuracy and precision of the Coulter LH 750/LH 755 hematology analyzer in its enumeration of the nRBC parameter. The assay provides for the Coulter LH 750/LH 755. nRBC-Chex for LH is a two-level control packaged in plastic, cap-pierceable v...
Company:Streck

Vysis UroVysion Bladder Cancer Kit

Description:...probe mixture of DNA probe sequences homologous to specific regions on chromosomes 3, 7, 9, and 17. The UroVysion probe mixture consists of Chromosome enumeration Probe (CEP) CEP 3 SpectrumRed, CEP 7 SpectrumGreen, CEP 17 SpectrumAquaTM and Locus Specific Identifier (LSI) 9p21 SpectrumGoldTM. The probes are pre-...
Company:Abbott Diagnostics

Sysmex UF-50™ Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...vide automatic classification and identification of ten types of formed elements. Unattended operation and superior formed element identification and enumeration bring new levels of efficiency and standardization to the clinical laboratory. The UF-50 is an excellent analyzer for clinical laboratories who need ...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

Sysmex UF-100 Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...vide automatic classification and identification of ten types of formed elements. Unattended operation and superior formed element identification and enumeration bring new levels of efficiency and standardization to the clinical laboratory. The UF-100 is an excellent analyzer for clinical laboratories who need...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

Sysmex XE-2100™ Automated Hematology Analyzer

Description:...fluorescent flow cytometry and advanced cell-counting methods, the XE-2100 offers a complete CBC with an extended differential that includes automatic enumeration of NRBC, HPC and IG. Fully automated reticulocytes and IRF results are available to aid the physician in monitoring erythropoietic activity. With a ...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

COULTER LH 750 Hematology Analyzer

Description:... The LH 750 analyzer is equipped with superior technologies, NRBC enumeration and random access capabilities. These advancements help high-volume labs eliminate manual pre-sorting of samples and speed results to clinicians. With...
Company:Beckman Coulter, Inc.

BE-1200 (220V/50Hz)

Description:... BE-1200 is a Accelerated Bacterial enumeration System. Bacterial concentration is determined by dividing the number of colonies found by the volume dispensed in the same sector of the dish. A logar...
Company:Astell

Enumeration in Medical Dictionary

Escherichia coli

...eak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 -- Illinois, 1995 ... An outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 associated with a children's paddling pool. ... enumeration of Escherichia coli and the coliform bacteria. ... Detection of Campylobacter and Escherichia coli O157:H7 from filth flies by ... An ente...

Enumeration in Biological News

K-State host to workshop on rapid methods to detect microorganisms in food

...tomation are a dynamic area in applied microbiology dealing with the study of improved methods in the isolation, early detection, characterization and enumeration of microorganisms and their products in clinical, food, industrial and environmental samples. The K-State workshop will focus on the practical applica...

American Society for Microbiology honors Stephen C. Edberg

...entification methods. Dr. Edberg's most significant contribution to global well-being was his development of the "Colilert" test for the detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli in drinking water under field and laboratory conditions. This test system is a monumental contribution to world health, especially...

Enumeration in Biological Technology

ChemAxon Launches JChem for Excel

...Marvin let's users draw and visualize structures and reactions, JChem is used for structure management and search, structure based prediction, library enumeration and library profiling. Although only version 1, JChem for Excel already has advanced integration including; full support for structures (view, ...

Global Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors Market to Reach $16.2 Billion by 2015, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

...ry overview, technology, trends, growth drivers, challenges, and most promising drugs in pipeline. Also provided are profiles of major players, and an enumeration of recent developments, mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic industry activities. Global small molecule kinase inhibitors market is analyzed by ...

A Worldwide Milestone in Cell Analysis - 40 Years of Flow Cytometry

... quality control in the industrial field. Fluorescence based flow cytometry is a standard method for automated and rapid cell analysis and cell enumeration procedures. Using most modern optoelectronics, cells and particles of small size, even in nanometer range, are detected. The cells are marked with spe...

ChemAxon Launches Marvin and JChem Version 5.2; Web Services, native .NET API, Homology Groups, 3D Alignment and Structural Frameworks

...ncludes structure and reaction editing, visualization and structure based property prediction; JChem includes structure management and search, library enumeration and library profiling. For structure based calculation new Calculator Plugins are added: Flexible 3D Alignment Plugin builds on our 3D expertis...

Spiral Biotech to Introduce New Autoplate Spiral Plating System at ASM General Meeting in May

...y and clinical laboratory applications. The company focuses on automating the pre-analytical and analytical steps involved with traditional microbial enumeration with a product line that includes colony counters, plating systems, anaerobic workstations, susceptibility test software, air samplers and sample prep...

Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc. Expands Into New Office and Production Space

...te research within the pharmaceutical, life science, and personal care/OTC markets. AATI's portfolio includes technologies for the rapid detection and enumeration of microbes by flow cytometry, and the parallel analysis of pharmaceutical compounds or biomolecules by capillary electrophoresis with UV absorbance d...

Veridex Announces Agreement to Acquire the Assets of Immunicon Corporation

... inventory and clinical data as well as all technologies related to the CellSearch(TM) System, the first diagnostic test to automate the detection and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), cancer cells that detach from solid tumors and enter the blood stream. The CellSearch(TM) System is currently clear...

Advanced Analytical Unveils New Instrument for Rapid Microbial Identification at BIO 2008

...te research within the pharmaceutical, life science, and personal care/OTC markets. AATI's portfolio includes technologies for the rapid detection and enumeration of microbes by flow cytometry, and the parallel analysis of pharmaceutical compounds or biomolecules by capillary electrophoresis with UV absorbance d...

ChemAxon Launches Marvin and JChem Version 5: Better User Experience, Better Integration, More Flexibility and Higher Performance

...em. The release sees major improvement in Marvin user friendliness, Markush enumeration and core development in JChem search, clustering and Oracle Cartridge perfo...and the functions of JChem include structure management and search, library enumeration and library profiling. The Marvin 5 toolkit sees a completely re-factored...

Free White Paper Available for Clinical Laboratory Managers: 'Effectively Isolating Anaerobic Bacteria'

...ry and clinical laboratory applications. The company focuses on automating the pre-analytical and analytical steps involved with traditional microbial enumeration with a product line that includes colony counters, plating systems, anaerobic workstations, susceptibility test software, air samplers and sample prep...

Enumeration in Biological Products

BD Procount BD Procount Progenitor Cell Enumeration Kit from BD Biosciences - Immunocytometry Systems

Description: A three-color reagent kit for determining the absolute count of CD34+ cells in human peripheral blood samples, mobilized peripheral blood samples, and leukapheresis samples. These reagent combinations also provide a total nucleated cell count and a total CD45 (leucocyte) cell count. This kit is des...
Company:BD Biosciences - Immunocytometry Systems

Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) Immunofluorescence Assay Kit from AbD Serotec

Description:...ukaemias and also in monitoring response to therapy. Immunofluorescence kit for TdT detection uses the indirect Immunofluorescence procedure, allowing enumeration of TdT cells by combined fluorescence and phase-contrast microscopy....
Company:AbD Serotec

Enumeration in Biological Dictionary

Escherichia coli

... the sequence of the Escherichia coli K-12 genome. Information included in a bacteriology lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. enumeration of Escherichia coli and the coliform bacteria. ... Detection of Campylobacter and Escherichia coli O157:H7 from filth flies by ... Overview...