altona Diagnostics announces leadership transition

New General Managers appointed

05-Jul-2024 - altona Diagnostics GmbH announces a leadership transition. Dr. Ulrich Spengler and Dr. Markus Hess, the current General Managers, are transferring the management responsibilities to Dr. Sönke Friedrichsen and Hans Kuhn. New leadership for a growing company Reflecting the development and expansion ...

Technology transfer award for PCR rapid test device for infection diagnostics

In-vitro-Diagnostic company Spindiag, a University of Freiburg and Hahn-Schickard spin-off, has been recognized for its research-based development

19-Apr-2022 - Spindiag GmbH, together with the University of Freiburg and the Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V., was awarded the Technology Transfer Prize 2020 from the German Physical Society (DPG) on April 09, 2022 for the development of the PCR-based rapid test system Rhonda. The ...

PCR: Activated by light

New approach could help to significantly improve diagnostic tests based on PCR

20-Dec-2021 - DNA polymerases and other enzymes that modify DNA are essential tools in biotechnology and diagnostics. They are the key component for COVID-19 diagnostics by PCR. As useful as they are, DNA processing enzymes often have important flaws. Some of them display significant activity during the ...

Recognise and control new variants of the deadly Ebola virus more quickly

11-Feb-2020 - The situation is extraordinary: there have only ever been four declarations of public health emergencies of international concern in the past and now there are two at the same time. Whilst the risks associated with the novel coronavirus are still unclear, people in the Democratic Republic of the ...

How reliable is diagnostic testing for Zika?

05-Mar-2018 - Globally, Brazil has been the hardest hit by the current Zika outbreak. Almost all cases of Zika-associated malformations in newborns have been reported from this country. DZIF scientists from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown that molecular diagnostic tests for the Zika virus ...

Molzym Automated Pathogen Enrichment and PCR Test Gets CE Mark for In Vitro Diagnostics

15-Nov-2017 - Molzym announces CE IVD marking of their robotic microbial DNA isolation and direct PCR test, Micro-Dx™, for routine pathogen diagnosis. With Micro-Dx™ Molzym introduces its latest development of products in line with SepsiTest™-UMD which was released in 2008. “By Molzym’s proprietary robotic DNA ...

GNA Biosolutions completes € 6 million financing round

Prepares for market entry with fast diagnostic instruments for hospital bugs

03-Jul-2015 - GNA Biosolutions GmbH (GNA), a manufacturer of ultrafast pathogen diagnostic instruments, will receive fresh capital of € 6 million in a series B financing round. Founded in 2010, GNA welcomes new investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC), SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement GmbH, ...

QIAGEN achieves Personalized Healthcare milestone with U.S. approval of companion diagnostic for colorectal cancer

11-Jul-2012 - QIAGEN N.V. announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit (therascreen KRAS test) to provide guidance on the use of Erbitux® (cetuximab) as a treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The U.S. FDA approval of ...

QIAGEN and Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology collaborate to develop assay for active TB risk in individuals with latent infection

11-Jan-2012 - QIAGEN N.V. and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB), Department of Immunology have announced a new collaboration to develop a molecular diagnostic test to assess the risk of an individual with latent tuberculosis (TB) developing active TB disease during their lifetime. ...

Roche Applied Science and TIB Molbiol offer Assay Solution for Rapid EHEC Identification

01-Jun-2011 - With the recent outbreak in Europe of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Roche Applied Science and TIB Molbiol are providing scientists with complementary technologies that can be used for the rapid identification and detection of EHEC.As of the second week of May 2011, there has been a ...