analytica 2022: Fighting COVID-19 with combined expertise

New tools in virus research and detection

22-Mar-2022 - Whether PCR apps or high-tech analysis equipment for vaccine development: during the pandemic, the chemical analysis and biotech sector has demonstrated its strength. From June 21 to 24, 2022, the industry will come together in Munich at analytica, the leading trade fair for analysis, laboratory ...

Rapid PCR tests at the touch of a button

ETH start-​up diaxxo hope to fundamentally change the way in which PCR testing is deployed in medicine

14-Dec-2021 - ETH researchers Michele Gregorini and Philippe Bechtold have developed a PCR testing device that can easily be used outside the lab – and that takes less than 30 minutes to deliver results. Now the two young entrepreneurs are focusing their efforts on getting the device approved for medical ...

QIAGEN and Applied Biosystems Settle all Disputes over Real-Time PCR Thermal Cycler Patents

26-Jan-2009 - Corbett, QIAGEN, ltf Labortechnik GmbH & Co. KG, and Applied Biosystems, LLC, part of Life Technologies Corporation announced a settlement of their disputes concerning infringement by Corbett’s Rotor-Gene_TM Real-Time PCR-Cyclers and Applied Biosystems’ Real-Time Thermal Cycler Instrument ...

Enigma Diagnostics signs exclusive licence agreement with the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

24-Aug-2007 - Enigma Diagnostics announced that it has signed a new exclusive licence agreement with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The worldwide licence covers a broad range of technologies, including Pyrostart, ResonSense and Temperature Control, which are important elements of ...

Gene Lab To Go

Reasonably priced and battery-driven: a pocket PCR device

02-May-2007 - A huge number of diagnostic techniques are based on PCR (the polymerase chain reaction): the use of PCR allows even the tiniest amounts of genetic material to be duplicated so that it can be analyzed. This should make things such as the rapid and reliable identification of a dangerous infectious ...

A better way to copy DNA

15-Jul-2004 - Scientists have developed a new method for DNA amplification that could replace the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In the August issue of EMBO reports, Huimin Kong and colleagues at New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA, USA) describe a way to copy mass amounts of DNA that has significant advantages ...