D3 Technologies Ltd is now Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd

Glasgow, Scotland, 11th May 2010: D3 Technologies Ltd, a world leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of Surface Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS) for molecular diagnostics and research  applications, today announced that it has changed its name to Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd.

Oxoid Xpect Legionella Enables Rapid Diagnosis of Pathogenic Legionella Species

New, easy to use test provides results in less than one hour

BASINGSTOKE, UK, (May 18, 2010) – Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, has launched Xpect™ Legionella, a rapid immunochromatographic test for the direct detection of Legionella pneumophila serogroups 1 and 6 antigen in human urine samples.

POCT knowledge and best practice shared

Dedicated Siemens events in north and south champion two-way partnerships

Direct feedback from Biomedical Scientists and Point of Care Testing (POCT) Coordinators was proactively gained recently by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics at dedicated customer connection days.  The two-way forums were designed to give customers updates on product developments, educate on e-learning tools, plus enable peers to exchange POCT best practice and provide input to a research and development wish list.

New Troponin Assay Has Proven Advantages for the Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Roche assay is the first commercially available Troponin T assay in the world to meet recent ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF* recommendations 

Doctors in a specialist cardiology clinic in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown that the Elecsys® Troponin T high sensitive (hs) assay helps to identify more patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) earlier, compared to less sensitive 4th generation cardiac troponin assays.  This high sensitive assay for cardiac Troponin T (cTnT) offers excellent precision (<10% CV) at the 99th percentile reference limit of a healthy population, making it the first commercially available Troponin T assay to meet the recent ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF* recommendations for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI)1,2.

Leicester mammography upgrade goes live

The digital transformation of the mammography services at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has taken another leap forward as Asteral installed two key upgrades at Glenfield Hospital.

Sterilin Supports Heart Art
British Heart Foundation’s ‘Artist-in-Residence’ uses Sterilin microtitre plates to depict cutting edge heart research.An art gallery is not the usual setting for Sterilin microtitre plates, but they certainly caught the eye of passers-by during a recent exhibition by postgraduate art student, Mark Eischeid. 

The architectural installation (see photograph) in the window of an Edinburgh College of Art gallery was constructed entirely from Sterilin 96-well microtitre plates filled with various shades of blue-dyed agarose gel. The dye, a solution of bromophenol blue and xylene cyanol, is normally used as a gel loading dye for the separation of DNA and RNA by electrophoresis.

Oxoid Culture Journal Focuses on Cronobacter Species and Mycobacterium bovis

Current thinking provides essential reading for microbiologists

BASINGSTOKE, UK. (May 11, 2010)– Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, today announced that the latest edition of its journal, Culture (Volume 31, No 1), is now available. The issue focuses on two key areas: the newly designated genus Cronobacter, an organism that has come to prominence due to its association with severe neonatal infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, septicaemia and potentially fatal meningitis, and Mycobacterium bovis, the causative bacterium of bovine tuberculosis.