Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from February 2007

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from February 2007

MDS to buy Molecular Devices in cash deal valued at $615m.
February 1, 2007... MDS (Toronto) and Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, California) reported signing a definitive agreement for MDS to acquire Molecular Devices, a provider of measurement tools for high-content screening, cellular analysis and biochemical testing, in...

Adlyfe focused on 'misfolding' as key to Alzheimer's test.
February 1, 2007... Adlyfe (Rockville, Maryland) this week reported that it has secured a U.S. patent for its technology covering a method for the early detection of more than 40 amyloid diseases. The company's goal is to utilize this method as a platform for a...

Response Biomedical begins European sale of CHF test.(International report)
February 1, 2007... Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported the European commercial launch of its NT-proBNP Test for the diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF). The company said that more than 25 RAMP Systems, as well as NT-proBNP and...

Ikonisys wins FDA clearance for bladder cancer test automation.
February 1, 2007... If "automation" is the key word in the modern testing laboratory, then Ikonisys (New Haven, Connecticut) is spelling it out in terms of bladder cancer. The company last week reported FDA clearance for the first test in its cancer pipeline,...

Stragene to pay Third Wave $10.75 million in settlement.(Court report)
February 1, 2007... Stratagene (La Jolla, California) has agreed to pay Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) $10.75 million in cash in an out-of-court settlement regarding issues litigated in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin in September 2005 and appealed...

Immucor.(Court report)
February 1, 2007... Immucor (Norcross, Georgia) reported the settlement of the charges against its Italian subsidiary related to allegedly improper payments to an Italian physician. Immucor reported in March that the former head of its Italian subsidiary told...

Inverness reports pricing of its public offering, could get $273m.(Financings roundup)
February 1, 2007... Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported the pricing of its previously disclosed public offering of 6 million shares of its common stock at $39.65 per share. In connection with the offering, the underwriters have been...

Signalife.(Financings roundup)
February 1, 2007... Signalife (Greenville, South Carolina) reported that on Jan. 25, it procured a $10 million revolving credit facility from SES Capital, under which Signalife may draw advances over a five-year term to meet its cashflow requirements. All...

CytoCore readies for upgraded Pap test device.(Briefly Noted)
February 1, 2007... CytoCore (Chicago), a late-stage bio-scientific research company advancing tools and testing for the early detection and diagnosis of deadly reproductive cancers, said it is ready to start making its cutting-edge e2 Collector sample retrieval...

Varian acquires Accel for $20m; Tm sets merger vote meeting.(Deals roundup)
February 1, 2007... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) reported completing the acquisition of Accel Instruments (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), a privately held supplier of scientific research instruments and proton therapy systems for cancer treatment....

Illumina.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Illumina (San Diego) reported that it completed its acquisition of Solexa (Hayward, California) in a stock-for-stock merger valued at about $600 million. In special meetings of stockholders, Solexa stockholders approved the merger...

Provista moves to larger quarters.(Briefly Noted)
February 1, 2007... Provista Life Sciences (Phoenix) reported relocating its headquarters to offices at 2400 Biltmore Circle, Ste. 1200, Phoenix, Arizona, enabling expansion of the three biotech diagnostic development companies overseen by Provista: GW Medical...

Paper recasts Alzheimer's as cardiovascular disorder.
February 1, 2007... A paper in the Jan. 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences casts Alzheimer's disease against type: as a cardiovascular disorder at its root. Reduced blood flow is a well-known symptom of Alzheimer's disease, but...

ND Systems now NDS Surgical Imaging.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... ND Systems (NDS; San Jose, California), a developer of surgical and medical visualization equipment, has changed its name to NDS Surgical Imaging. The company also has moved from Morgan Hill, California to a 73,000-square-foot facility in San...

Affymetrix in genomic research collaboration with Vanderbilt.(Agreements roundup)
February 1, 2007... Affymetrix (Santa Clara, California) and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (Nashville, Tennessee) reported that they have entered into a three-year translational research collaboration to analyze genomic information across a large number of...

Roche Diagnostics.(Agreements roundup)
February 1, 2007... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) and Protedyne (Windsor, Connecticut), a company offering industrial robotic solutions, said they have integrated their technologies to provide a rapid, completely automated solution for high-throughput...

Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of imaging systems for the operating room, said that it has ended its distribution partnership with CarboMedics (Austin, Texas), a member of the Sorin Group (Milan, Italy).(Agreements roundup)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto), a developer of imaging systems for the operating room, said that it has ended its distribution partnership with CarboMedics (Austin, Texas), a member of the Sorin Group (Milan, Italy). The action became effective...

Sequenom (San Diego) and Lenetix Medical Screening Laboratory (Mineola, New York), a provider of genetic screening and diagnostic testing for clinicians worldwide.(Agreements roundup)
February 1, 2007... Sequenom (San Diego) and Lenetix Medical Screening Laboratory (Mineola, New York), a provider of genetic screening and diagnostic testing for clinicians worldwide, reported that they have entered into a collaboration-and-license agreement to...

AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) reported completing its $220 million acquisition.
February 1, 2007... AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) reported completing its $220 million acquisition of Rita Medical Systems (Fremont, California). In the deal, each share of Rita common stock was converted into the right to receive 0.1722 of a share of...

Digene sponsors 'Stop Cervical Cancer' campaign.(International report)
February 1, 2007... The launch of the "Call to Action to Stop Cervical Cancer in Europe" will accelerate the fight to eradicate the disease, Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) said in reporting its sponsorship of the campaign. The campaign is being launched in...

Canadian distribution agreement set.(International report)
February 1, 2007... eGene (Irvine, California), developer of a high-performance genetic analysis technology, said it has entered into a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific, Canada (Ottawa) to promote and sell the HDA-GT12 system in Canada. David...

SDI cites gains in Japan.(International report)
February 1, 2007... Strategic Diagnostics (SDI; Newark, Delaware) said that its partnership with the Oriental Yeast Co. (OYC; Tokyo) is meeting commercialization targets for its Genomic Antibodies service offering within the Japanese life science industry. ...

iCardiac Technologies (Rochester, New York) said it has entered into a multi-year research alliance with Pfizer.(Agreements roundup)
February 1, 2007... iCardiac Technologies (Rochester, New York) said it has entered into a multi-year research alliance with Pfizer (New York) to develop and validate advanced ECG-based cardiac safety biomarkers using the COMPAS technology platform. iCardiac...

Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) reported that its clinical development partner Ohio State University (Columbus) published an article describing the use of Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight (SELDI-TOF).(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) reported that its clinical development partner Ohio State University (Columbus) published an article describing the use of Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight (SELDI-TOF) mass...

iCAD.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire) reported the availability of the TotalLook version 8.0, the latest version of its film digitizer, providing women's healthcare centers with workflow and connectivity-related benefits supporting the transition from...

Imaging Diagnostic Systems.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI; Fort Lauderdale, Florida) reports the issuance of U.S. Patent 7,155,274, entitled "Optical Computed Tomography Scanner for Small Laboratory Animals," its 17th US patent in the optical CT field. Imaging...

Molecular Devices.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, California) reported the introduction of the Arcturus laser capture microdissection instrument. The instrument uses Molecular Devices' LCM technology and, combined with the system's automated image archiving,...

Novadaq Technologies.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its imaging system for use during plastic reconstruction and micro surgery. Novadaq plans to market the system under the name HELIOS, which is the first fluorescent...

Nymox Pharmaceutical.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Nymox Pharmaceutical (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey) reports the publication of a new peer-reviewed report in the Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis providing further positive data on the accuracy and utility of the company's urinary...

Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) and Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported a joint product offering that combines Caliper's Twister II Microplate Handler and Roche's LightCycler 480 Real-Time PCR system.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) and Caliper Life Sciences (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) reported a joint product offering that combines Caliper's Twister II Microplate Handler and Roche's LightCycler 480 Real-Time PCR system. The integrated...

Sigma-Aldrich.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis) has launched the GenomePlex Tissue Whole Genome Amplification (WGA) Kit. Sigma-Aldrich is a life science and high technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and...

Signalife.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Signalife (Greenville, South Carolina) reported that it has completed the development of a prototype device to be used for objective evaluation of ECG/IC (electrocardiogram and intracardiac) data recorders. Signalife is a life sciences company...

Varian Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
February 1, 2007... Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, California) has received FDA 510(k) clearance for patient position monitoring capabilities that have been added to the company's RPM respiratory gating system, which is used to synchronize imaging and...

Lloyd Diamond has joined Avantis Medical Systems (Sunnyvale, California) as VP.(People in Places)
February 1, 2007... Lloyd Diamond has joined Avantis Medical Systems (Sunnyvale, California) as VP, marketing and sales. Avantis makes catheter-based endoscopic devices.

Welch Allyn.(People in Places)
February 1, 2007... Julie Shimer has been appointed president/CEO of Welch Allyn (Skaneateles Falls, New York), effective March 5. Shimer has been a member of Welch Allyn's board since 2002. Welch Allyn makes medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices, cardiac...

FDA clears MammaPrint test to predict return of breast cancer.
February 8, 2007... The FDA this week reported marketing clearance for a new genetic test used to determine the likelihood of breast cancer returning within five to 10 years after a women's initial cancer. But the day when doctors can tell a patient, with...

Quest buys HemoCue for $420m; Inverness to buy First Check.(Deals roundup)
February 8, 2007... Quest Diagnostics (Lyndhurst, New Jersey), a provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, reported acquiring HemoCue (Angelhom, Sweden), a company specializing in near patient testing, also known as point-of-care (POC) testing,...

The Lancet publishes Ravgen research on prenatal testing.
February 8, 2007... Study publication in The Lancet brings with it significant cachet. And Ravgen (Columbia, Maryland), privately held, can make that boast with a study--in an early release online last week in that prestigious journal--of its methods for using...

Fujirebio's test for monitoring mesothelioma FDA-approved.
February 8, 2007... Mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, may not be the most common form of cancer, but it is highly aggressive and therefore any sign of strong recurrence following surgery or indication of a response to therapy could be...

Mindray prices its secondary offer of ADS at $24.50 each.(International report)
February 8, 2007... Mindray Medical International (Shenzhen, China), a developer of medical devices in China, reported the pricing of its secondary offering of 9,827,220 American Depositary Shares (ADSs) at $24.50 per ADS. Each ADS represents one Class A...

European patent for prostate marker.(International report)
February 8, 2007... Ciphergen Biosystems (Fremont, California) said the European Patient Office (EPO) has issued it Patent No. 1 224 466, titled "Prostate Cancer Marker Proteins," for aiding in prostate cancer diagnosis. The patent describes a method that measures...

Medicsight corporate name now MGT.(International report)
February 8, 2007... Medical imaging software company Medicsight (London) has changed its corporate name to MGT Capital Investments. The company said the new name reflects its position as the parent company to Medicsight plc, a developer of computer-aided...

Inverness reports over-allotment sale brings total to about $273m.
February 8, 2007... Inverness Medical Innovations (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported that underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in full to purchase another 900,000 shares of its common stock in connection with its initial public offering that priced...

AmeriPath (Palm Beach, Florida), a provider of physician-based anatomic pathology, reported that AmeriPath Intermediate Holdings, the newly formed subsidiary of AmeriPath Holdings and direct parent of AmeriPath, expects to commence an offering of $125 million principal amount of senior unsecured floating rate PIK toggle notes, due 2014, in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.
February 8, 2007... In other financing activity: * AmeriPath (Palm Beach, Florida), a provider of physician-based anatomic pathology, reported that AmeriPath Intermediate Holdings, the newly formed subsidiary of AmeriPath Holdings and direct parent of...

Newport (Irvine, California) reported that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, about $150 million in convertible subordinated notes, due 2012, through an offering to institutional buyers.(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... * Newport (Irvine, California) reported that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, about $150 million in convertible subordinated notes, due 2012, through an offering to institutional buyers. The interest rate, conversion...

BioBehavioral Diagnostics (BioBDx; Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported securing an $8.5 million Series A financing, co-lead by Sevin Rosen Funds and Tullis-Dickerson.
February 8, 2007... * BioBehavioral Diagnostics (BioBDx; Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported securing an $8.5 million Series A financing, co-lead by Sevin Rosen Funds and Tullis-Dickerson. BioBDx says it has created a diagnostic system for measuring the core...

Algynomics, Orthogen, in pact to study orthopedics medicine.(Agreements roundup)
February 8, 2007... Algynomics (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) and Orthogen (Dusseldorf, Germany) reported forming an alliance in the area of individualized orthopedics medicine, to facilitate clinical studies designed to identify genetic markers of orthopedic...

The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS; Philadelphia) has selected active infection surveillance and real-time injury detection and prevention systems provided by TheraDoc (Salt Lake City).(Agreements roundup)
February 8, 2007... The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS; Philadelphia) has selected active infection surveillance and real-time injury detection and prevention systems provided by TheraDoc (Salt Lake City). UPHS will use TheraDoc to evaluate and...

Bill against genetic bias is bolstered by lawmakers.(News from Washington)
February 8, 2007... WASHINGTON -- Senate committee members last week passed a bill that would prohibit genetic-based discrimination, just a day after a House subcommittee held a hearing on the same subject. The legislation, called the "Genetic Information...

TechniScan Medical says $6.4m will add to SBIR $2.8 million.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... TechniScan Medical Systems (Salt Lake City), a developer of ultrasound technology for breast imaging, reported completion of its Series D financing of $6.4 million. The recent funding is now added to a $2.8 million Small Business Innovation...

Quick Study Radiology.(Financings roundup)
February 8, 2007... Quick Study Radiology (QSR; St. Louis), a company bringing to smaller community hospitals the radiology services typically available to large hospitals, reported that it has closed a $3.3 million Series D financing round led by Advantage...

Precision Optics.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... Precision Optics (Gardner, Massachusetts), reported completing a private placement of its common stock, raising $2.5 million. The company issued 10 million shares at 25 cents a share and warrants to purchase 10 million shares of common stock at...

Del Global Technologies.(Financings roundup)
February 8, 2007... Del Global Technologies (Franklin Park, Illinois) reported that the registration statement for its previously disclosed common stock rights offering was declared effective on Tuesday by the SEC. The company will distribute non-transferable...

Sontra Medical.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... Sontra Medical (Franklin, Massachusetts) reported that it closed a $660,000 common stock and warrant financing with Sherbrooke Partners, other accredited investors and members of Sontra's board of directors and management. Sontra said that...

Stratagene.(Deals roundup)
February 8, 2007... Stratagene (La Jolla, California), a manufacturer of specialized life science research and diagnostic products, reported obtaining the last of four co-exclusive licenses to more than 150 microRNA sequences available from Max Planck Innovation,...

Atherotech to restructure, forms management committee.(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... Atherotech (Birmingham, Alabama), a developer of cardio-diagnostic technology, including its VAP cholesterol test, reported a series of restructuring initiatives that it said will strengthen its management infrastructure and position it for its...

CardioNet.(Deals roundup)(CardioNet Inc. acquires PDSHeart )
February 8, 2007... CardioNet (San Diego), a provider of wireless mobile cardiac outpatient monitoring solutions, reported that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire PDSHeart (West Palm Beach, Florida), a cardiac event monitoring company. The...

Infotonics Technology Center.(People in Places)(Laura Weller-Brophy appointed)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... * Laura Weller-Brophy was named biomedical product development and commercialization manager of Infotonics Technology Center(Cherry Hill, New Jersey). Brophy will focus her efforts on bringing to market optical diagnostic products being...

Sequenom.(People in Places)(Steven Owings appointed)
February 8, 2007... * Steven Owings has been named to the newly created position of VP of commercial development, Prenatal Diagnostics, at Sequenom (San Diego). Owings will lead commercialization of Sequenom's non-invasive prenatal diagnostic technology now in...

Verathon issues urology 'challenge'.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... Verathon (Bothell, Washington) (formerly Diagnostic Ultrasound) reported issuing a "Urology Challenge," offering $10,000 for "the most practical and scientifically valid protocol" to study the relationship between bladder wall mass and...

ND Systems now NDS Surgical Imaging.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... ND Systems (NDS; San Jose, California), a developer of surgical and medical visualization equipment, has changed its name to NDS Surgical Imaging. The company also has moved from Morgan Hill, California to a 73,000-square-foot facility in San...

Response reports succession plan, president steps down.(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... As part of a succession plan, Bill Radvak, president/CEO of Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia), said he will step down from those positions following conclusion of an executive search for a replacement, now underway. Radvak will...

American Bio Medica.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... American Bio Medica (Kinderhook, New York) reported the launch of the patent pending OralStat EX, an oral fluid point-of-collection test that improves the limits of detection over other point-of-collection oral fluid drug tests on the market....

Biomagnetics Diagnostics (Orangevale, California) reported that Lathrop Engineering, a Silicon Valley design and engineering firm, has completed phase "O" of product development on schedule and has established a "proof of concept" for Biomagnetics' patented HTS-MTP technology. Phase 1 will take the company through the detailed design of breadboard and integrated concept for prototype instrumentation.(Product Briefs)
February 8, 2007... Biomagnetics Diagnostics (Orangevale, California) reported that Lathrop Engineering, a Silicon Valley design and engineering firm, has completed phase "O" of product development on schedule and has established a "proof of concept" for...

Epix Pharmaceuticals.(Product Briefs)
February 8, 2007... Epix Pharmaceuticals (Lexington, Massachusetts) reported that preclinical data from a gadolinium-based collagen-specific contrast agent, EP-3533, was featured in a poster presentation at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging...

Health Discovery Corporation.(Product Briefs)
February 8, 2007... Health Discovery Corporation (Savannah, Georgia) reported that it has filed new patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in the U.S. Receiving Office for the Patent Cooperation Treaty for U.S. and foreign patent...

Response Biomedical.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
February 8, 2007... Response Biomedical (Vancouver, British Columbia) reported that the U.S. patent and trademark office has issued a notice of allowance for the patent, entitled "Sensitive Immunochromatographic Assay," covering key aspects of Response's lateral...

Royal Philips Electronics.(Product Briefs)
February 8, 2007... Royal Philips Electronics (Andover, Massachusetts) reported the release of its new vital signs monitor, the SureSigns VS3. Designed for use both in and out of the hospital, the monitor is suitable for general care wards, emergency departments,...

Thermo Fisher Scientific.(Product Briefs)
February 8, 2007... Thermo Fisher Scientific (Palm Springs, California) reported showcasing a spectrum of laboratory automation capabilities at LabAutomation 2007 designed to improve workflow efficiency and data reproducibility in two key areas of lab automation...

Cytyc agrees to acquire Adeza via $452 million in cash, credit.(Deals roundup)
February 15, 2007... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts), a provider of surgical and diagnostic products targeting women's health and cancer diagnostics, reported that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Adeza Biomedical (Sunnyvale, California) a publicly...

FDA to push ahead with assay guidance despite opposition.
February 15, 2007... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland -- Makers of in vitro diagnostics for in-house use have faced little FDA oversight in the past, and despite the existence of regulations written by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has written regulations...

China Medical to acquire FISH technology for up to $177m.(International report)
February 15, 2007... China Medical Technologies (Beijing), a manufacturer of ultrasound products and in vitro diagnostic systems, reported that it will buy the fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) businesses of Supreme Well Investments and Molecular Diagnostics...

Mammography clinics get three years between accreditations.
February 15, 2007... Those who handle regulatory affairs in most of the industries under the FDA's purview would celebrate a decrease in the agency's oversight of their operations, and the operators of mammography clinics have picked up a late Christmas present in...

Siemens pleads guilty to obstruction of justice case.(Court report)
February 15, 2007... Siemens Medical Solutions (Malvern, Pennsylvania) reported reaching an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois to settle allegations made in an indictment filed in January. SMS will plead guilty to a...

Medtronic (Minneapolis) has lost its appeal to revive a $51 million jury verdict against BrainLab (Munich, Germany) over image-guided surgical techniques.(Court report)
February 15, 2007... Medtronic (Minneapolis) has lost its appeal to revive a $51 million jury verdict against BrainLab (Munich, Germany) over image-guided surgical techniques. Medtronic won the case at trial, In September, a Denver jury ruling that BrainLab...

Clarification.(Correction notice)
February 15, 2007... A story about the oncoFISH bladder cancer test application product from Ikonisys (New Haven, Connecticut) in the Feb. 1 issue of Diagnostics & Imaging Week should have stated that lab technicians only have to prepare slides in the way that they...

LabCorp, ARCA Discovery team for genetic test of heart failure.(Agreements roundup)
February 15, 2007... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) and ARCA Discovery (Denver), a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing genetically targeted therapies for heart failure and other cardiovascular...

Fujirebio Diagnostics (FDI; Malvern, Pennsylvania) and ARUP Laboratories (Salt Lake City) said they signed an agreement to offer the Mesomark Assay, the companies calling it the world's first in vitro test for monitoring mesothelioma, a form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure.(Agreements roundup)
February 15, 2007... Fujirebio Diagnostics (FDI; Malvern, Pennsylvania) and ARUP Laboratories (Salt Lake City) said they signed an agreement to offer the Mesomark Assay, the companies calling it the world's first in vitro test for monitoring mesothelioma, a form of...

Stryker to sell Swissray DR systems in five-year accord.(Grants/contracts)
February 15, 2007... Swissray (Elizabeth, New Jersey), a manufacturer in the direct digital radiographic systems industry, reported that it has signed a five-year agreement with the imaging division of orthopedic products maker Stryker (Kalamazoo, Michigan). ...

Cytogen reports publication of cancer study using Prostascint.
February 15, 2007... Cyotgen (Princeton, New Jersey) has reported the publication of a seven-year survival study that suggests its molecular imaging agent, Prostascint, may help predict which patients are less likely to benefit from brachytherapy for prostate...

Newly identified gene variation can alter breast cancer risk.(Disease/Disorder overview)
February 15, 2007... LONDON -- Almost three of four women of European descent have a gene variant that increases their risk of breast cancer by a very small amount. The rest have a variant of the same gene that reduces their risk of breast cancer by 10% or...

Roche 'wheeled labs' begin national tour.(Briefly Noted)
February 15, 2007... Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis) recently launched two customized "lab on wheels" semi-tractor trailers as mobile demonstration centers, called the Roche Explorers. They began their cross-country trek recently, first stopping in Atlanta,...

Mayo Clinic surgeons propose indicators for lung surgery.
February 15, 2007... Surgeons at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) have proposed a system of lung surgery quality indicators for surgeons and the public as a method to demonstrate best practices for obtaining positive patient outcomes. The surgeons said the...

F&S: new electrophesis expands market.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
February 15, 2007... While protein electrophoresis is a well-established method in the field of protein expression analysis, the development of new techniques extending the principles of this technology has renewed interest in this experimental methodology. ...