Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from August 2002

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from August 2002

Companies use wide variety of efforts to boost products. (AACC conference a showcase for what's new).
August 1, 2002... ORLANDO, Florida -- Like the golfers who work their way around the endless array of lush courses that dot the landscape of the Orlando area, providers of diagnostic products and services have used every club in the bag to score points with...

Urine test for bladder cancer could detect prostate cancer. (Report from Europe).
August 1, 2002... LONDON -- A large-scale trial to evaluate a simple urine test for bladder cancer, involving 3,000 patients, is about to begin. The test, which detects a protein involved in cell division, could replace the battery of expensive and invasive...

UL: there's no time to waste in journey to meet IVD directive. (AACC conference a showcase for what's new).
August 1, 2002... ORLANDO, Florida -- So you're a diagnostic product manufacturer and you're planning to continue doing business--or perhaps to begin doing business--in Europe from December 2003 forward. If either is the case and you aren't already started...

Varian sales and income gain in third quarter, nine months. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) said sales in the third quarter increased 16% to $216 million from $186.2 million in the year-earlier period. Net income also was up, totaling $22.8 million or 32 cents a diluted share compared to...

CTI looks to panel review, publication of positive data.
August 1, 2002... Developmental firm Computerized Thermal Imaging (CTI; Portland, Oregon), a company attempting to bring a new imaging modality for breast cancer diagnosis to market, last week reported the accomplishment of two major milestone steps it hopes...

LabCorp closes Dynacare buy; Quest offer again extended. (Deals roundup).
August 1, 2002... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina; LabCorp) completed its previously reported acquisition of Dynacare (Dallas, Texas), an independent provider of laboratory testing in North America, for about $480...

Amersham plc (Little Chalfont, UK) has acquired Motorola Life Sciences' (Northbrook, Illinois) CodeLink pre-arrayed slides business for $20 million. (Deals roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Amersham plc (Little Chalfont, UK) has acquired Motorola Life Sciences' (Northbrook, Illinois) CodeLink pre-arrayed slides business for $20 million. According to Amersham, the acquisition moves the company into the pre-arrayed slides market,...

Picchio Pharma (Montreal, Quebec) closed on its acquisition of 2.8 million units of Neurochem (Saint-Laurent, Quebec) at a cost of $2.50 per unit, for a total of $7 million. (Deals roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Picchio Pharma (Montreal, Quebec) closed on its acquisition of 2.8 million units of Neurochem (Saint-Laurent, Quebec) at a cost of $2.50 per unit, for a total of $7 million. The units are comprised of one Neurochem common share and one...

Brain-monitoring technology licensed to treat depression. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... Aspect Medical Systems (Newton, Massachusetts) secured from the Neuropsychiatric Institute and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA exclusive rights to commercialize brain-monitoring technology for depression. The technology is designed to...

Group purchasing organization AmeriNet (St. Louis, Missouri) signed a three-year agreement with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut), a medical image archiving firm, to enable AmeriNet's members to obtain InSiteOne's InDex Archive and Store services. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Group purchasing organization AmeriNet (St. Louis, Missouri) signed a three-year agreement with InSiteOne (Wallingford, Connecticut), a medical image archiving firm, to enable AmeriNet's members to obtain InSiteOne's InDex Archive and Store...

Daxor (New York) signed an agreement to place its BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer with New York University Medical Center (New York). (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Daxor (New York) signed an agreement to place its BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer with New York University Medical Center (New York). Blood volume measurements provide a range of information in blood loss during surgery or trauma, congestive...

Fujirebio Diagnostics (Malvern, Pennsylvania) acquired from Pacific Northwest Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) the rights to develop two newly discovered ovarian tumor markers, mesothelin and HE4. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Fujirebio Diagnostics (Malvern, Pennsylvania) acquired from Pacific Northwest Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) the rights to develop two newly discovered ovarian tumor markers, mesothelin and HE4. Preclinical research has shown that...

H-Quotient. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * H-Quotient (Vienna, Virginia) contracted to an unnamed company Canadian distribution rights for LabQuotient, its software system and database that match tests with diagnoses. The contract includes revenue from distributions rights fees,...

Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) entered a series of nonexclusive agreements with Fischer Scientific (Hampton, New Hampshire) to collaborate on the sale of Igen's Origen products in the U.S. and UK. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) entered a series of nonexclusive agreements with Fischer Scientific (Hampton, New Hampshire) to collaborate on the sale of Igen's Origen products in the U.S. and UK. The parties will collaborate in...

R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) is installing at the Duke University Hospital (Durham, North Carolina) its ImageChecker CAD system, which has been shown in studies to increase cancer detection rates by up to 23.4% when interpreting mammograms. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * R2 Technology (Sunnyvale, California) is installing at the Duke University Hospital (Durham, North Carolina) its ImageChecker CAD system, which has been shown in studies to increase cancer detection rates by up to 23.4% when interpreting...

SureCare (Houston, Texas)expanded its relationship with Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) to market Abbott's Medisense Optium meter and test strips to its diabetes client base, including managed care and government payers. (Agreements roundup).
August 1, 2002... * SureCare (Houston, Texas)expanded its relationship with Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) to market Abbott's Medisense Optium meter and test strips to its diabetes client base, including managed care and government payers. SureCare...

Aksys. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Aksys (Lincolnshire, Illinois) a developer of dialysis systems, reported results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30. For the quarter, the company reported a net loss of $3.7 million or 15 cents per share, compared with a net...

Affymetrix. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California), developer of the GeneChip platform for use in life sciences research, said revenues grew to $70.7 million in the second quarter ended June 30 from $49.5 million in 2Q01. The net loss was $158 million or 3...

Biosite. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Biosite (San Diego, California) said revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 increased 54% to $25 million from $16.2 million in the same period of last year. Net income was up 63% to $3.1 million or 20 cents a diluted share from $19...

Calypte Biomedical. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Calypte Biomedical (Alameda, California) said revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 were $1.2 million, down from $1.61 million a year earlier, while the net loss grew to $4.96 million or 8 cents a share from the loss of $2.84 million...

Cholestech. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Cholestech (Hayward, California) said revenues slipped to $11.6 million in the first quarter ended June 28 from $12.4 million in the prior-year period, while net income increased 13% to $1.4 million or 10 cents a diluted share from $1.2...

Cygnus. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Cygnus (Redwood City, California), developer of the GlucoWatch Biographer glucose-monitoring device, said revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 totaled $316,000 compared to $71,000 in 2Q01. The net loss of $11.5 million or 30 cents a...

Cytyc. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts), developer of the ThinPrep Pap Test, said revenues in the second quarter ended June 30 fell to $43.2 million from $53 million in 2Q01, with a net loss of $1.6 million or 1 cent a share vs. net income of $16...

Diametrics Medical. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Diametrics Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) said net sales in the second quarter ended June 30 declined to $5.27 million from $6.13 million in the year-earlier period, while the net loss of $2.13 million or 8 cents a share doubled the loss of...

Endocare. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Endocare (Irvine, California), a developer of diagnostic and treatment tools for cancer and other diseases, said it had significant growth in both sales and earnings in the second quarter ended June 30. Revenues were $11.4 million, a 222%...

Epix Medical. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Epix Medical (Cambridge, Massachusetts), which produces specialty pharmaceuticals for magnetic resonance imaging, said second-quarter revenues totaled $3.7 million, up from $2.2 million in 2001, while a net loss of $6.7 million or 39 cents a...

Haemonetics. (Earnings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts), which makes blood-processing systems, reported lower quarterly earnings as a drop in interest and other income offset higher sales. The company posted earnings for the fiscal first quarter, ended June...

Affymetrix. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * Trevor Nicholls, PhD, was named the Chief commercial officer of global operations for Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California). Prior to joining Affymetrix, Nicholls was founder and CEO of Oxagen Ltd., a clinical genomics company spun out of the...

CTI Molecular Imaging. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * Thomas Hook was appointed president of CTI Molecular Imaging (CTI; Knoxville, Tennessee). Hook formerly was the general manager of global functional and molecular imaging for GE Medical Systems. CTI provides positron emission tomography (PET)...

Serologicals. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * James Kramer, PhD, was named vice president of plasma operations for Serologicals (Atlanta, Georgia), effective Aug. 5. Kramer most recently was program director, Lifeblood, at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company....

Given a difficult market, Nomos shelves its IPO. (Financings roundup).
August 1, 2002... Nomos (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) said last week that, due to market conditions, it elected to withdraw its previously announced public offering of common stock. "Moving forward with our initial public offering under current market...

E-Z-EM. (Financings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * E-Z-EM (Westbury, Connecticut) approved a previously announced plan to combine its two currently outstanding classes of common stock, Class A and Class B, into a single class. The transaction will be effected by merging a newly formed...

Mobile PET Systems. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * Thomas Insley was appointed CFO, director and secretary of the board of Mobile PET Systems (San Diego, California). Most recently Insley was a managing partner in the San Diego office for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mobile PET Systems...

Specialty Laboratories. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * Mark Willig has been named vice president of sales for Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California). Most recently, Willig was vice president of sales at Myriad Genetics. Specialty is a clinical reference laboratory serving the hospital....

Whatman. (People in Places).
August 1, 2002... * Stuart Miller has been appointed group finance director for Whatman (London), a developer of separations technology. Stuart will replace Harry Cooper, who steps down as group finance director, but will continue to assist Whatman with its...

Hypertension Diagnostics. (Financings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Hypertension Diagnostics (Eagan, Minnesota) extended the period during which holders of its redeemable Class A warrants may participate in an offering of up to 2.36 million redeemable Class B warrants. The offering period began June 6. The...

Response Biomedical. (Financings roundup).
August 1, 2002... * Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) secured a $500,000 revolving demand credit facility with The Toronto-Dominion Bank. Proceeds will be used for working capital purposes including research and development, sales and marketing,...

American Bio Medica. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * American Bio Medica (Kinderhook, New York) received FDA clearance to market its Rapid Tec 5, a new drug testing method that can be used on-site and is capable of detecting five classes of commonly abused illicit drugs from a single urine...

AutoGenomics. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * AutoGenomics (Carlsbad, California) introduced the Infiniti System, a standardized and automated approach for cost-effective genetic testing that integrates the processes of genomic and proteomic analyses into a standalone, continuous flow,...

Diagnostic Products Corp. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Diagnostic Products Corp. (DPC; Los Angeles, California) received FDA clearance for the Immulite and Immulite 2000 Anti-HBs assays. The assays were approved for in vitro diagnostic use for the qualitative measurement of total antibodies to...

Diametrics Medical. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Diametrics Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) released its GL cartridge to measure glucose and electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) in blood at the point of care. It will be used by hospitals for blood glucose monitoring of patients in...

Digirad. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Digirad (San Diego, California) released its CardiusSST product, a dual-head, solid-state imaging system designed to enhance system reliability and image quality. The system is smaller and weighs less than conventional gamma cameras,...

Dolphin Medical. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Dolphin Medical (Hawthorne, California) received CE mark approval for its Dolphin Voyager, a pulse oximetry engine designed in the standard Compact Flash format, The card slides into any Compact Flash socket and, with its accompanying Dolphin...

Hitachi Medical Systems America. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Hitachi Medical Systems America (Twinsburg, Ohio) received 510(k) clearance to market the AVIA Multi-Modality Workstation with Fusion7D. AVIA is designed for processing and viewing DICOM data from any diagnostic imaging modality. "The AVIA...

Philips Medical Systems. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Philips Medical Systems (Andover, Massachusetts) received FDA clearance for its IntelliVue Patient Monitoring System that allows doctors to be at bedside and access vital information on the patient monitor, such as test results and medication...

Strategic Diagnostics. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Strategic Diagnostics (SDI; Newark, Delaware) said its RapidChek E. coli O157 Test Kit earned performance tested certification from the AOAC Research institute, which validated the test cassette for use in boneless beef, ground beef and apple...

TeraRecon. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * TeraRecon (San Mateo, California) made available its AquariusBLUE workstation, part of its Aquarius end-user product family designed for 2-D review as well as 3-D and 4-D post processing for use with existing computed tomography (CT) or...

Toshiba America Medical Systems. (Product Briefs).
August 1, 2002... * Toshiba America Medical Systems (TAMS; Tustin, Californian) received FDA clearance for the Aquilion 16, a 16-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner the company says is four times faster and captures more anatomical information than previous...

PCR seen keying change from reactive to proactive medicine. (American Association for Clinical Chemistry).
August 8, 2002... ORLANDO, Florida -- Developments in molecular diagnostics are fueling a shift in medical care from "reactive treatment to proactive wellness," according to Dick Aderman of Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Indiana). In a discussion on...

NIH, GE team up to develop new MRI with 3-D capability.
August 8, 2002... The National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) is teaming with GE Medical Systems (Waukesha, Wisconsin) in a licensing agreement for an MRI system developed by an NIH division that adds another dimension for soft tissue imaging....

Elan plans restructuring into three drug discovery arenas. (Report from Europe).
August 8, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Elan (Dublin, Ireland), a firm that so often has been linked to diagnostics, is attempting to stake out a new claim in the drug discovery field. The debt-ridden company is re-engineering its focus on...

NIH award to support its latest genomics Center of Excellence. (Grants/contracts news).
August 8, 2002... Genomic research received a large boost this week with a $15.5 million government grant awarded to the Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI; Berkeley, California). The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National...

Cepheid sells $10 million worth of common stock. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) reported the sale of common stock to certain investors, raising $10 million. The company did not disclose the proposed use of the new funds. Cepheid, founded in 1996,...

Cytyc. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) said its board authorized an additional $50 million to repurchase shares of its common stock through open market purchases or private transactions. The board also authorized ongoing repurchase of additional...

Given Imaging. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Given Imaging (Yoqneam, Israel) said its president and CEO Gavriel Meron entered into a structured trading plan to sell up to an aggregate of 104,000 ordinary shares of the company. Sales under the SEC-approved rule allows corporate insiders...

Inoveon. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Inoveon (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), a medical services company specializing in detecting, staging and monitoring diseases of the eye, closed a $16 million preferred Series B round of venture capital financing. CenterPoint Ventures led the...

Mobile PET Systems. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Mobile PET Systems (San Diego, California), a provider of positron emission tomography (PET) diagnostic imaging services, raised $6.75 million in equity financing via the sale of 11.25 million shares of its common stock with two private...

Sensys Medical. (Financings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Sensys Medical (Chandler, Arizona), formerly Instrumentation Metrics, finalized its Series D round of financing at $31 million after Invesco Funds provided additional funding. Other investors included Alliance Technology Ventures, which led...

Enzo patent decision sends significant case back to trial.
August 8, 2002... The winds of change are blowin' in the world of biotechnology patents, and those winds--having judicially shifted, at least for the moment--are no longer ill. Last month, in a closely watched case that pitted Enzo Biochem (Farmingdale, New...

Igen says revenues increase, net loss falls in 1st quarter. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report Igen International (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said revenues for the first quarter ended June 30 increased 45% to $12 million from $8.3 million in 1Q01 while the net loss of $7.4 million or 33 cents a...

Applied Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Applied Imaging (Santa Clara, California) reported achieving its sixth consecutive quarter of record revenues vs. the prior-year quarter and that it "moved into a profitable position, as forecast." Sales for the second quarter ending June 30...

EP MedSystems. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * EP MedSystems (Mt. Arlington, New Jersey) said second-quarter revenue increased 28% from a year-ago figure of $2.41 million to $31 million. The net loss decreased 46% from the prior year period $1178 million to $634,000. EP develops cardiac...

Given Imaging. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Given Imaging (Yoqneam, Israel) reported 2Q02 revenues of $7.2 million, a 38% increase over 1Q02 sales. The second quarter represents the third full quarter of Sales for the company for both the U.S. and European markets following FDA...

Hologic. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Medical imaging manufacturer Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts) rolled out its 3Q02 results, reporting net income of $492,000, or 2 cents per diluted share, compared with a 3Q01 net loss of just over $1.21 million, or 8 cents per diluted share....

Physiometrix. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Physiometrix (North Billerica, Massachusetts) said its 2Q02 revenues were down from a year-ago figure of $474,852 to $9293. The net loss for the quarter was $1.66 million or 20 cents per share, compared with a loss of $2.61 million or 31...

Quidel. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Point-of-care diagnostic test provider Quidel (San Diego, California) said its 2Q02 revenues were up 11% to $17.8 million, compared with total revenues of $16 million in the year-ago quarter. On a net basis, earnings for the quarter were...

Radiologix. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Radiologix (Dallas, Texas), a provider of diagnostic imaging services, reported 2Q02 net income of $4.8 million, up 27% from a year-ago figure of $4 million. Earnings per share for the quarter were 21 cents, a 10.5% increase over the 19-cent...

SonoSite. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * SonoSite (Bothell, Washington) said it had revenues of $16.6 million in the second quarter ended June 30, a 61% increase over $10.3 million in the same period of last year. The net loss of $2.5 million or 20 cents a share was down from the...

Serologicals. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Serologicals (Norcross, Georgia), a maker of purified blood proteins used in diagnostic and biotechnology products, said net income for the second quarter fell as it took one-time charges to close four donor centers. Serologicals posted net...

Specialty Laboratories. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Specialty Laboratories (Santa Monica, California), a clinical reference laboratory, said revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 fell to $34] million from $45.2 million for 2Q01, with a net loss of $7.4 million, or 34 cents a diluted...

Unilab. (Earnings roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Unilab (Tarzana, California) said net sales for the second quarter were $109.2 million, an increase of 10.4% from $98.9 million in the same period last year. Net income increased by more than 87% to $11 million or 31 cents per share for 2Q02,...

Lab Tests Online. (American Association for Clinical Chemistry).
August 8, 2002... The AACC, which spearheaded the creation and development of the Lab Tests Online web site (www.labtest-online.org), said the consumer-oriented site has logged more than 1 million visitors since its establishment late last summer. The site,...

American Society for Clinical Pathology. (American Association for Clinical Chemistry).
August 8, 2002... * A council of 20 laboratory organizations and four government agencies said in an issue of the AACC's Clinical Laboratory News distributed at the conference that fewer than half of the 9,800 new laboratory scientists needed each year are...

FTC concerns extend merger of Quest/Unilab for 4th time. (Deals roundup).
August 8, 2002... Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Report In what has become a familiar pattern on the diagnostics consolidation front, Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, New Jersey) extended for a fourth time the expiration date for its cash election exchange...

Hemoxymed (Charlottesville, Virginia) and Molecular Geriatrics (MGC; Vernon Hills, Illinois) entered a strategic alliance after signing an agreement and plan of merger. (Deals roundup).
August 8, 2002... * Hemoxymed (Charlottesville, Virginia) and Molecular Geriatrics (MGC; Vernon Hills, Illinois) entered a strategic alliance after signing an agreement and plan of merger. Hemoxymed will acquire all of MGC's outstanding common stock, options and...

Consortium unveils genome comparisons. (Report from Europe).
August 8, 2002... A French private-public consortium has unveiled the initial results it obtained from the comparison of 67 genomes, which it is making available to the international scientific community. The consortium--comprised of the Atomic Energy Commission...

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the NIH, established the Centers of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research. (Grants/contracts news).
August 8, 2002... The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the NIH, established the Centers of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research. Two new center awards totaled $4.5 million for the first year of funding. The University of...

NuGen Technologies. (Grants/contracts news).
August 8, 2002... * NuGen Technologies (San Carlos, California) received from the NIH a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop a rapid, sensitive assay to detect anthrax based on NuGen's Single Primer Isothermal Amplification Technology...

Cytyc Health Corp. (People in Places).
August 8, 2002... Daniel Levangie was promoted from president of Cytyc (Boxborough, Massachusetts) to president and CEO of Cytyc Health Corp., a subsidiary of Cytyc. Levangie will oversee activity for Cytyc Health, currently focused on launch of FirstCyte Ductal...

Focus Technologies. (People in Places).
August 8, 2002... * Charles Harwood Jr. has been named president and of Focus Technologies (Herndon, Virginia). Laurence McCarthy, former president and CEO, will become chairman and chief technology officer. Most recently Harwood was senior vice president and...

BioTrove. (Product Briefs).
August 8, 2002... * BioTrove (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it completed a study demonstrating the Living Chip technology for ultra-high-throughput screening of a genetic diversity. The technology is a tool that allows about 25,000 nanoliter-volume reactions to...

DeCode Genetics. (Product Briefs).
August 8, 2002... * DeCode Genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) said it mapped a gene shown to have a genome-wide significant linkage to asthma. A paper describing the discovery was published in the online edition of American Journal of Human Genetics. DeCode...

GeneMachines. (Product Briefs).
August 8, 2002... * GeneMachines (San Carlos, California) launched its family of OmniGrid slides and reagents for improved microarray experimentation, including three substrate types (OmniGrid Aldehyde slides, OmniGrid Epoxy slides, OmniGrid Amine slides) and a...

Matritech. (Product Briefs).
August 8, 2002... * Matritech (Newton, Massachusetts) received FDA clearance for its NMP22 BladderChek, a product that brings rapid detection into a urologist's office via proteomics technology. NMP22 BladderChek detected four times more early-stage bladder...