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2009 NOV 30 ... system to provide hands-off operation, incorporating clinical sample preparation, nucleicacid extraction, and microfluidic real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ... - Diagnostic Systems. "We plan to provide laboratories with a broad molecular test menu on a very advanced automation platform." The healthcare-associated ...
2009 NOV 30 ... such as viruses, bacteria and parasites that may be present in donated blood. The nucleicacid targeted mechanism of action allows INTERCEPT treatment to inactivate both ... this outcome, the FDA expressed concerns regarding observed differences between the test and control arms of the study and had indicated that it needed more data to support a ...
2009 OCT 12 ... "In February 2007, a 63-year-old man underwent surgery. Retrospective testing with nucleicacid testing (NAT) showed that the patient was human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 ... for the individual-donation NAT with the Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 test (Roche CAP/CTM HIV-1 test) and for HIV antigen/antibody combination testing (Abbott ...
2009 NOV 30 ... also provided by Roche. The assay is carried out on the Roche MagNA Pure LC platform for nucleicacid isolation and the LightCycler® 2.0 system for real-time PCR; these instruments ... of the testing process for 2009 H1N1 virus. "During the last months, our test proved to be reliable in many labs around the world. We are glad that, in granting the ...
2009 NOV 23 ... and capriciously created its own definition of "probes" as encompassing "primers" in nucleicacid science in an attempt to justify its faulty reasoning for rejecting an HPV ... for its "inappropriate classification of a virus DNA-replicating device as a cancer test." The misclassification costs women extra worry and society at least $10 billion a ...
2009 NOV 30 ... The program will continue to focus on utilizing Ionian's proprietary isothermal nucleicacid amplification technology, the NEAR Assay, to develop a platform for various global ... amplification coupled with a simple and rapid detection by fluorescence or lateral-flow test strips. The power of the NEAR amplification reaction matches the sensitivity and ...
2009 NOV 9 ... products that incorporate Biosearch's proprietary fluorophores and quencher dyes for nucleicacid assays. Under the terms of the worldwide license, Biosearch has granted Micronics a ... as the core detection technology for use in the Influenza H1N1 (Swine Flu) real-time PCR test for distribution among public health and other qualified labs worldwide. By ...
2009 OCT 12 ... used by the 61 participants. The overall reproducibility of the commercial quantitative nucleicacid amplification techniques (qNAT) was acceptable. As the intermethod variability ... among commercial qNAT for HCV RNA was still present, the manufacturers of these test kits should join efforts to harmonize the means of quantification of HCV RNA. This study ...
2009 NOV 2 ... "The aim of this study was to compare two nucleicacid extraction methods for the recovery of enteric viruses from activated sludge. Test ...
2009 NOV 16 ... using the UniCAP system. The tissue was analyzed for the presence of SA by the peptide nucleicacid-fluorescence in situ hybridization (PNA-FISH) technique (AdvanDx), and a ... (AdvanDx), and a semiquantitative scoring system was applied. Mann-Whitney exact test was used for statistical analysis. SA in the mucosal tissue was detected in a higher ...
2009 SEP 28 ... People's Republic of China, "In order to further improve blood safety, mini-pool (MP) nucleicacid testing (NAT) was implemented to screen samples negative for hepatitis B surface ... "Reactive pools were re-tested as individual samples using the appropriate screening test and confirmed using an alternate commercial NAT assay. Donors reactive on both NAT ...
2009 NOV 9 ... plasma and WB samples of 82 patients with chronic hepatitis C by a specific locked nucleicacid-mediated capture method and quantified by real-time reverse transcription-PCR. The ... the reference plasma viral load determined with the COBAS AmpliPrep/TaqMan (CAP/CTM) HCV test. This assay had an analytical sensitivity of 9 IU per 10-mu l sample (95% limit of ...
2009 NOV 30 ... "Antibodies to specific nucleicacid conformations are amongst the methods that have allowed the study of non-canonical ... that three-stranded structures rather than duplexes were formed in chromosomal sites. To test this hypothesis, the specificity of antibodies to triple-helical nucleic acids was ...
2009 NOV 1 ... of this highly multiplexed test will be achieved by using Smiths Detection's LATE PCR nucleicacid amplification and detection technology. This technology was licensed from Brandeis ...
2009 NOV 1 ... rapid test to detect multiple flu variants. This will be achieved by using our LATE PCR nucleicacid amplification and detection technology to detect and analyze multiple targets ...
2009 NOV 16 ... (PBMCs) and bronchoalveolar lavage mononuclear cells (BALMCs). M. tuberculosis-specific nucleicacid amplification (NAAT) was performed on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Seventy-one of ... odds ratio [OR], 40.4) was superior to PBMC ELISpot (OR, 10.0), tuberculin skin test (OR, 7.8), and M. tuberculosis specific NAAT (OR, 12.4) to diagnose sputum AFB ...
2009 NOV 3 ... scientists in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China conducted a study "To evaluate nucleicacid testing of urine specimens against conventional Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and ... laboratory processing. CT PCR on genital swabs was performed by the Roche Cobas Amplicor test. Urine samples were tested for CT and NG by the Aptima Combo 2 (AC2) assay. Data from ...
