RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

Oxoid has launched a new rapid colorimetric test for Candida albicans. O.B.I.S. albicans (ID0700M) differentiates C. albicans from other yeast species on standard diagnostic culture media in just one hour.

Cisbio International, a developer of HTRF technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, has announced its IP-One assay system for use in high-throughput drug screening applications.

Bayer Diagnostics has announced a significant menu expansion for its ADVIA 1650 and ADVIA 2400 automated chemistry analysers.

bioMΘrieux has introduced the TEMPO system, the first automated solution for microbial enumeration in the food industry.

Mastercycler ep from Eppendorf is a high-precision, user-friendly thermal cycler that offers fast heating and cooling for automated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods in as little as 40 minutes.

Immunodiagnostic Systems (IDS) has launched its new 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D enzyme immunoassay (EIA), which complements the IDS vitamin D range and is an excellent addition to the constantly growing range of bone and mineral markers.

Millipore has introduced its Elix Ultraviolet (UV) water purification system, which combines advanced purification technologies to provide pure water of consistent optimal quality.

Unipath has announced the relaunch of the premium TestPack + Plus branded Strep A test, a rapid immunoassay for the qualitative detection of group A streptococcal antigen from throat swabs.

Genevac has launched a new range of affordable centrifugal concentrators for molecular biology applications.

Beckman Coulter has expanded the anaemia menu on its Access immunoassay family of analysers with the release of a reformulated test for folate.

Fujifilm launched the QuickGene-810 Nucleic Acid Isolation System worldwide in April 2005. The Institute for Cancer Studies, at the University of Sheffield Medical School, had a prototype of the QuickGene-810 on trial prior to the worldwide launch, and were so impressed that they decided to keep it.

Bio-Rad Laboratories has been in clinical diagnostics for 40 years, starting with manual assay procedures and independent quality-control materials, but has since developed in specific areas such as quality controls, infectious diseases, autoimmune testing, diabetes management and haemoglobin screening.

Thermo Electron has launched the latest version of its protein identification software suite, BioWorks 3.2, which enables scientists and researchers to quickly and accurately identify proteins. BioWorks is designed to support ThermoÆs entire range of Finnigan ion-trap mass spectrometers.

Oxoid have recently announced the introduction of two new rapid tests for the diagnosis of syphilis.

Beckman Coulter has recently introduced Cell Lab Quanta, a flow-cytometry solution for affordable cellular analysis in research and drug discovery applications.

The Manual Door Square Section is the latest addition to Astell's range of high quality autoclaves, and like all their square section units is now supplied as standard with the NEW LogiColor, touch screen, full colour controller.

Following the success of its Touchscreen control system, introduced to the Touchclave- Lab autoclave range last year, LTE has now launched a new control system û Touchscreen-R.

The recently launched S-3400N variable-pressure scanning electron microscope from Hitachi High-Technologies has improved display and signalmixing facilities for versatility of operation.

The wide selection of identification tests available from Oxoid has been extended to include the rapid and convenient RapID range. These easy to use test panels provide accurate and reliable identifications of a broad range of micro-organisms in just four hours û and in as little as two hours for selected organisms.

The image analysis solutions specialist Syngene has recently launched the ChemiGeniusXE 3 multi-purpose image analysis system.