Technology

Medical Device Concept Reduces Time to Diagnose Infections
When a patient arrives at a hospital with a serious infection, doctors have precious few minutes to make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe treatment accordingly; however a new diagnostic device may significantly reduce the amount of time necessary to diagnose tissue infections. More...16 Sep 2015


Latest Generation Tissue Embedder to Ease Burden in Histology Laboratories
Histology laboratories stand to benefit from the availability of a fully automated tissue embedder that was designed to eliminate the labor intensive necessity of manually orienting and embedding tissue specimens in paraffin blocks. More...16 Sep 2015


MD HPLC, MD Mass Spec, and Software Receive IVDD CE-Marking
The in vitro diagnostics device CE marking for the two high-performance instruments and software enables a combined system with the high accuracy of LC-MS to now be available to clinical laboratories in Europe for general IVD use. More...15 Sep 2015
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