Diagnostics & Imaging Week articles from March 2007

Diagnostics & Imaging Week archives from March 2007

Healthcare reform, diagnostic issues on AdvaMed's agenda.(User fee agreement--but no details)
March 1, 2007... WASHINGTON -- As the new legislative cycle picks up speed and various members of the House have made known their antipathy to the President's budget proposals, industry associations are getting their legislative and regulatory agendas into the...

Cytyc in $60m buy of Adiana; MDS closes diagnostics spin.(Deals roundup)
March 1, 2007... Cytyc (Marlborough, Massachusetts), a provider of surgical and diagnostic products targeting women's health and cancer diagnostics, has agreed to acquire Adiana (Redwood City, California), a private company that has developed a non-incisional...

Studies indicate link between stroke and Fabry disease.(International report)
March 1, 2007... In Europe, more than 1.2 million people experience a stroke every year. The 18-to-55 age group is commonly affected, but at least one-fourth of all cases the causes of stroke in that group remain unclear. Recent studies have suggested that...

Gene variant halves the risks from several infectious diseases.
March 1, 2007... LONDON -- People's risks of succumbing to four major infectious diseases are influenced by a change in a single amino acid, in a protein that helps to stimulate the immune response to infections. The genetic mutation that causes this change...

iMDsoft reports second review limiting Visicu's patent claims.(Court report)
March 1, 2007... SonoSite (Bothell, Washington), a developer of hand-carried ultrasound systems, reported that it has filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California) in the U.S. District Court for the...

Rosetta Genomics' IPO raising $26.3m for microRNA work.(Financings roundup)
March 1, 2007... Israel-based Rosetta Genomics (Rehovot, Israel) has priced its initial public offering of 3.75 million shares to raise $26.3 million to support ongoing work on microRNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic cancer products. As with other...

Healthnostics.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... * Healthnostics (Bethesda, Maryland) reported a special restricted stock distribution of one share of Healthnostics' common stock for each 10 shares of Healthnostics common stock held by shareholders of record as of March 12. The special...

Barnev gets FDA go-ahead to market labor monitoring device.(Food and Drug Administration, Computerized Monitoring System)
March 1, 2007... Babies have a way of arriving in the world on their own schedule, absent physician intervention. Because of the uncertainty this can create for both mother and obstetrician, an Israeli company has developed a monitoring system that would help...

National Digital collaborating with Apollo PACS in pathology.(Agreements)(National Digital Medical Archive, Apollo Pathology Picture Archiving Communications Solutions)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA; Berwyn, Pennsylvania) and Apollo PACS (Falls Church, Virginia) reported a collaboration on product integration initiatives that support the "seamless" delivery of pathology imaging. The initiatives will...

SomnoScreen reduces tethering for better sleep in a sleep lab.
March 1, 2007... A sleep lab is not a particularly good place to get a good night's sleep in, says Allan Brack, VP of sales for the Americas for Somnomedics U.S. (Cooper City, Florida). First of all, "you're not at home," he told Diagnostics & Imaging...

Quidel, Cholestech to offer iPLEDGE kit.(Briefly Noted)
March 1, 2007... Quidel (San Diego) and Cholestech (Hayward, California) have joined forces to offer an Accu-Tame program to dermatologists designed to ease the process of prescribing isotretinoin for their patients while helping them comply with iPLEDGE...

Colorado device, diagnostics win proof-of-concept funding.(Grant/contract news)
March 1, 2007... Colorado research institutions have begun receiving research funding as the result of legislation allocating state funds for work in the biosciences, according to Denise Brown, executive director of Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA;...

StatSure Diagnostic Systems (SSUR; Framingham, Massachusetts) reported receipt of an order for 500,000 units of its saliva collection devices from Diagnostic Technologies Corporation (DTC; London).(Grant/contract news)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... StatSure Diagnostic Systems (SSUR; Framingham, Massachusetts) reported receipt of an order for 500,000 units of its saliva collection devices from Diagnostic Technologies Corporation (DTC; London). The collectors are to be delivered this year....

Sysmex America (Mundelein, Illinois), which focuses on clinical laboratory design and solutions, reported being awarded a Decentralized Blanket Purchase Agreement (DBPA) from Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP).(Grant/contract news)
March 1, 2007... Sysmex America (Mundelein, Illinois), which focuses on clinical laboratory design and solutions, reported being awarded a Decentralized Blanket Purchase Agreement (DBPA) from Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP)....

Rosetta Biosoftware (Seattle) reported that the University of California, Los Angeles licensed its Resolver system to support research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC).(Deals roundup)
March 1, 2007... * Rosetta Biosoftware (Seattle) reported that the University of California, Los Angeles licensed its Resolver system to support research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC). Financial terms of the licensing were not...

Screening program set for MCADD.(International report)
March 1, 2007... All babies in England are to be screened for an inherited metabolic disease called Medium Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD), within two weeks of birth, according to a recent announcement by the UK Department of Health. There...

Sartorius acquires control of Stedim.(International report)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Sartorius (Goettingen, Germany), a laboratory and process equipment provider, has acquired control of Stedim (Aubagne, France), a manufacturer of disposable bag and freeze-thaw technology systems for biopharmaceutical applications. Under...

Austrian hospital orders Elektra systems.(International report)
March 1, 2007... Elekta (Stockholm, Sweden), a manufacturer of advanced radiation treatment devices for cancer and brain disorders, reported an order from Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch (Feldkirch, Austria). It includes two Elekta Synergy advanced treatment...

BioLucent.(Product Briefs)(introduction of mammoPad breast cushion)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... BioLucent (Aliso Viejo, California) will present a poster at the conference of the National Consortium of Breast Centers on its MammoPad breast cushion, combined with training in breast positioning, to increase compression and tissue...

Medstrat (Downers Grove, Illinois) reports the integration of the CompuMed (Los Angeles) OsteoGram bone mineral density (BMD) measurement software for osteoporosis screening, diagnosis and monitoring with its echoeSYSTEM PACS software suite.(Product Briefs)
March 1, 2007... Medstrat (Downers Grove, Illinois) reports the integration of the CompuMed (Los Angeles) OsteoGram bone mineral density (BMD) measurement software for osteoporosis screening, diagnosis and monitoring with its echoeSYSTEM PACS software suite....

Meridian Bioscience.(Product Briefs)(introduction of immunocard stat! ehec)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Meridian Bioscience (Cincinnati) reports receiving FDA clearance to market ImmunoCard STAT! EHEC, a test to diagnose E. coli infection. The product detects all Shigatoxin producing E. coli and is the first rapid (20 minute) E. coli diagnostic...

Roche Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)
March 1, 2007... Roche Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) has introduced an advance in point-of-care (POC) anticoagulation monitoring, the CoaguChek XS system, for physician's office use and self-testing by patients on warfarin therapy. The product offers...

StatSure Diagnostic Systems.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... StatSure Diagnostic Systems (Framingham, Massachusetts) reported that it has filed a patent application for an integrated, oral-fluid collection and testing device to screen for sexually transmitted and infectious diseases. In addition to...

Varian.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Varian (Chicago) introduced its new 900-MS series Fourier Transform mass spectrometers. (FTMS) for a variety of application areas including proteomics, metabolomics, petrochemical and environmental analyses. The available field strengths of the...

PerkinElmer.(People in Places)
March 1, 2007... Richard Begley has joined PerkinElmer (Waltham, Massachusetts) as VP and general manager of its analytical sciences business. Begley previously worked for Ensemble Discovery. PerkinElmer develops life and analytical sciences and...

Medtronic's Chronicle fails to win panel OK for approval.(Primary endpoint not met)
March 8, 2007... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland -- FDA reviewers at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health are looking at another batch of close calls this year, and its circulatory system advisory panel held two of such toughies last week on Thursday and...

Gen-Probe's automated Procleix cleared for WNV blood screening.
March 8, 2007... The FDA took the fairly infrequent step this week of issuing a statement concerning a product clearance, this one reporting marketing okay of a license supplement for Gen-Probe (San Diego) to market the first fully automated West Nile Virus...

Novadaq gets Japanese patent for its SPY imaging system.(International report)
March 8, 2007... Novadaq Technologies (Toronto) reported receiving a patent in Japan for its SPY Intra-operative Imaging System, enabling the visualization of the flow of blood through grafts during bypass procedures. The Japanese patent, No. 3881550,...

Study suggests women unaware of genetic cancer syndromes.(Society of Gynecologic Oncologists)
March 8, 2007... A study released at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO; Chicago) 38th annual meeting on women's cancer found few patients were aware of genetic cancer syndromes and the high risk of developing cancer if genetic mutations were found....

Escalon to gather in $9.6 million from settlement with IntraLase.(Court report)
March 8, 2007... Escalon Medical (Wayne, Pennsylvania) reported an agreement with IntraLase (Irvine, California) settling all outstanding litigation between them. IntraLase will pay Escalon $9.6 million, with all pending litigation between them dismissed....

Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that it has filed its response to the recent patent lawsuit brought against it by Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) in January.(Court report)
March 8, 2007... * Third Wave Technologies (Madison, Wisconsin) reported that it has filed its response to the recent patent lawsuit brought against it by Digene (Gaithersburg, Maryland) in January. The company's answer to the suit was filed with the U.S....

Home Diagnostics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), a manufacturer of diabetes testing supplies, reported that on March 2, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, ruled in its favor concerning non-infringement.(Court report)
March 8, 2007... * Home Diagnostics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), a manufacturer of diabetes testing supplies, reported that on March 2, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, ruled in its favor concerning non-infringement,...

LabCorp reports termination of its laboratory services by Aetna.(Contracts/grants)
March 8, 2007... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) reported that it will no longer be a contracted laboratory provider for Aetna (Hartford, Connecticut), effective July 1. "We are disappointed with Aetna's...

VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a developer of image-based biomarker solutions, said that it has begun work on two research contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense, totaling $2.2 million, to explore the application of VirtualScopics' image analysis technologies to the interpretation of optical hyper-spectral reconnaissance and surveillance imagery.(Contracts)
March 8, 2007... In other contract news: * VirtualScopics (Rochester, New York), a developer of image-based biomarker solutions, said that it has begun work on two research contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense, totaling $2.2 million, to explore...

Novation (Irving Texas) reported new contracts with suppliers of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS).(Contracts)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Novation (Irving Texas) reported new contracts with suppliers of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). It has awarded a three-year pact, effective May 1, to DR Systems (San Diego), giving Novation members the ability to...

Abbott (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported that it has awarded diagnostic equipment, supplies and service to clinical laboratory educational programs at 16 U.S. schools to prepare students for careers in clinical laboratory science.(Grants)
March 8, 2007... In grant news: * Abbott (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported that it has awarded diagnostic equipment, supplies and service to clinical laboratory educational programs at 16 U.S. schools to prepare students for careers in clinical laboratory...

Lab-on-a-chip firm Advanced Liquid Logic buys Nanolytics.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... Advanced Liquid Logic (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), a microfluidics "lab-on-a-chip" spinout from the Pratt School of engineering at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), reported that it has acquired Nanolytics (Raleigh, North...

Bioscience (Toronto), a developer of genetic tets, reported that it has received a final order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approving the acquisition of the company by Luminex (Austin, Texas).(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Bioscience (Toronto), a developer of genetic tets, reported that it has received a final order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approving the acquisition of the company by Luminex (Austin, Texas). As reported earlier this week,...

Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS; Erlangen, Germany) reported that it has received antitrust approval and completed its acquisition of Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD; Berlin).(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS; Erlangen, Germany) reported that it has received antitrust approval and completed its acquisition of Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD; Berlin). The new entity,...

China Medical Technologies.(Deals roundup)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * China Medical Technologies (Beijing), a company developing in vitro diagnostic systems and tumor therapy systems, said it completed its previously reported acquisition of a fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) business. The acquisition is...

DexCom prices $40m convertible senior notes in private offering.(Financings roundup)
March 8, 2007... DexCom (San Diego) reported the pricing of $40 million of convertible senior notes, due 2027, in a private offering to institutional buyers. The notes are convertible into shares of common stock based on an initial conversion rate of...

Clinical Data.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Clinical Data (Newton, Massachusetts) reported that affiliates of Chairman R.J. Kirk exercised warrants to purchase 190,505 shares of Clinical Data common stock at a purchase price of $19.45 per share. The warrants were issued in a...

Thermo Fisher Scientific.(Financings roundup)
March 8, 2007... * Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) reported that its board has authorized the repurchase of $300 million of shares of its own common stock in the open market or in negotiated transactions through Feb. 28, 2008. The company's...

Maquet links brain, diaphragm to improve mechanical ventilation.(clearance of neurally adjusted ventilator assist technology )
March 8, 2007... With mechanical ventilation, sometimes a "battle" between the ventilator and patients ensues, with some fighting the device's attempts to breathe for them even though they cannot breathe on their own. Maquet Critical Care (Bridgewater, New...

Merge eMed now Merge Healthcare North America.(Briefly Noted)
March 8, 2007... Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee) reported that the name of its North American direct business unit will be changed from Merge eMed to Merge Healthcare North America. Merge Healthcare's three business units are: Merge Healthcare North America,...

Siemens Molecular Imaging in pact with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... The Molecular Imaging division of Siemens Medical Solutions (SMS; Hoffman Estates, Illinois), a provider of molecular imaging equipment, molecular imaging tracers and services, reported an agreement with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (Madison, New...

iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer.(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... * iCAD (Nashua, New Hampshire), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, reported the integration of technology developed and licensed from the National Institutes of Health, into the...

Biosite (San Diego) reported the addition of McKesson (San Francisco).(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... * Biosite (San Diego) reported the addition of McKesson (San Francisco) to its distributor network. Biosite's product offering for physicians treating outpatients is the Triage BNP Test, designed to aid in the diagnosis and assessment of...

Aethlon Medical (San Diego), a developer of therapeutic devices for infectious disease.(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... * Aethlon Medical (San Diego), a developer of therapeutic devices for infectious disease, reported a research collaboration with The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR; San Antonio) to study the Aethlon Hemopurifier as a...

VisEn Medical (Woburn, Massachusetts) reported the launch of a multi-year joint R&D program with Merck & Co. (Whitehouse, New Jersey).(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... * VisEn Medical (Woburn, Massachusetts) reported the launch of a multi-year joint R&D program with Merck & Co. (Whitehouse, New Jersey) to develop a range of fluorescence imaging agents for real-time imaging of disease biomarkers in vivo. ...

IRIS International (Chatsworth, California) reported that it has signed a 40-month agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners.(Agreements roundup)
March 8, 2007... * IRIS International (Chatsworth, California) reported that it has signed a 40-month agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, a unit of Premier (San Diego), for its iQ200 Automated Urine Microscopy Analyzer and Systems, and has expanded its...

Applied NeuroSolutions.(People in Places)(Disease/Disorder overview)
March 8, 2007... * Ryan Rauch has been retained by Applied NeuroSolutions (Vernon Hills, Illinois) as an investment relations consultant. Rauch previously was an analyst at Jefferies & Company. Applied NeuroSolutions makes products focusing on the diagnosis and...

BioImagene.(People in Places)
March 8, 2007... * BioImagene (Cupertino, California) reported the appointment of four new senior executives: Vivek Pathak as CFO, Steven Barbee as VP of Sales, Greg Loney as VP of instrumentation, and Himanshu Ubale as VP of engineering. BioImagene provides...

Biosite.(People in Places)(Thomas Blassey promoted as vice president)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Thomas Blassey has been promoted to the position of VP, U.S. sales, at Biosite (San Diego). Blassey will lead the company's sales organization, national accounts and sales and clinical training. Most recently, he was Biosite's regional sales...

Iris Diagnostics.(People in Places)
March 8, 2007... * Thomas Warekois has been appointed Corporate VP and president of the diagnostics business unit of Iris Diagnostics (Chatsworth, California). Warekois most recently was senior VP of global strategic marketing at the Diagnostics develops...

CellSearch system launched in Hong Kong.(International report)
March 8, 2007... The CellSearch System, an advanced prognostic platform for analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTC) in metastatic breast cancer patients, has been launched for commercial application in Hong Kong. The system is provided by Bridgetech Hong...

Cedara to unveil C4 platform in Vienna.(International report)
March 8, 2007... Cedara Software (Toronto), a business of Merge Healthcare (Milwaukee) that develops medical software technologies for global healthcare markets, said it plans to introduce its C4 Integration platform and a number of new medical imaging...

AngioDynamics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * AngioDynamics (Queensbury, New York) introduced its Smart Port CT at the 32nd annual scientific meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology being held in Seattle. The new vascular access port is indicated for power injection of...

Cytomyx (Cambridge, UK) reported that it has launched new biomarker tools from its earlier collaboration with OriGene Technologies (Rockville, Maryland).(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Cytomyx (Cambridge, UK) reported that it has launched new biomarker tools from its earlier collaboration with OriGene Technologies (Rockville, Maryland). Cytomyx supplied hundreds of highly characterized RNA samples from a wide range of major...

Epocrates.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Epocrates (San Mateo, California) reported the launch of two new mobile applications to provide clinical information at the point of care. The ICD-9/CPT reference helps clinicians identify diagnostic and procedural billing codes, while the...

Focus Diagnostics.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Focus Diagnostics (Cypress, California) reported receiving FDA 510(k) clearance for its Plexus HerpeSelect 1 and 2 IgG test kit, which uses multiplex type-specific HSV serology panel using xMAP technology from Luminex. The test kit provides...

Nanogen.(Product Briefs)(Brief article)
March 8, 2007... * Nanogen (San Diego) reported that it has been issued four patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventions related to diabetes and Alzheimers disease biomarkers. The patents are the most recent in a series describing biomarkers...

Zonare Medical Systems.(Product Briefs)
March 8, 2007... * Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California) reported the introduction of the z.one ultra system, the next generation in Zone Sonography technology for what the company said is the first Convertible Ultrasound platform at the Society of...

3M launches foray into medical diagnostics with three platforms.
March 15, 2007... 3M Health Care (St. Paul, Minnesota) has set its sights on the diagnostics business, reporting Monday the launch of a new Medical Diagnostics business unit that will focus on developing and commercializing rapid diagnostics for the detection of...

Medtronic glucose monitors win juvenile diabetic patient approval.
March 15, 2007... The FDA has approved two of Medtronic's (Minneapolis) most advanced glucose monitoring systems for use in children and adolescents, providing a group of patients a heightened level of protection against dangerous elevated glucose levels...

InterGenetics' OncoVue test is released in UK and Ireland.(Report from Europe)
March 15, 2007... InterGenetics (Oklahoma City), a predictive medicine company focused on molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy for cancer, reported the international release of OncoVue, which it said is "the first genetic-based, breast cancer risk test...

Clarient spins off ACIS, Trestle to Carl Zeiss MicroImaging.(Deals roundup)
March 15, 2007... Clarient (Aliso Viejo, California) reported that it will sell its Automated Cellular Imaging System (ACIS) and Trestle Instruments Systems business assets and related intellectual property to Carl Zeiss MicroImaging (Gottingen, Germany) for $11...

Zonare adds $15m new equity; Del Global raises $12.6 million.(Financings roundup)(Zonare Medical Systems)(Brief article)
March 15, 2007... Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, California), a developer of ultrasound technology, said the company is closing additional equity funding, representing about $15 million. The Series G financing was led by existing investors Frazier...

Implant Sciences (Wakefield, Massachusetts), a developer of products for national security, semiconductor and medical industries, reported what it called its "understanding" that CorNova (Burlington, Massachusetts), a privately held company focused on the development and marketing of endovascular diagnostics and treatments, has sold about 75,000 shares of Implant's common stock over the past two days through its broker.(Financings roundup)
March 15, 2007... Implant Sciences (Wakefield, Massachusetts), a developer of products for national security, semiconductor and medical industries, reported what it called its "understanding" that CorNova (Burlington, Massachusetts), a privately held company...

Quidel.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
March 15, 2007... Quidel (San Diego), a provider of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests, said its board of directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to an additional $25 million in shares of its common stock. This is in addition to the remaining...

HealthSouth.(Financings roundup)(Brief article)
March 15, 2007... HealthSouth (Birmingham, Alabama) said it has amended its existing senior secured credit facilities to lower the applicable interest rates and modify certain other covenants. Amended interest rates on the Term Loan B are LIBOR plus 2.5%. The...

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings.(Financings roundup)
March 15, 2007... Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp; Burlington, North Carolina) said its board has authorized a new stock repurchase program to buy up to an aggregate of $500 million of its common stock. LabCorp develops diagnostic...

FDA to review Roche Diagnostics automated blood screening test.
March 15, 2007... Recognizing the importance of enabling blood banks to quickly screen for a broad range of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and viral hepatitis infections in donated blood, Roche Molecular Diagnostics (Pleasanton, California), a business area...

Fujifilm in pact with Hitachi for advanced storage solutions.(Grants/contracts)
March 15, 2007... Hitachi Data Systems (Santa Clara, California), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi (Tokyo, Japan), has been selected by Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, (Stamford, Connecticut) a provider of diagnostic imaging products and network systems for...

ScImage (Los Altos, California), an enterprise imaging and information management company, based announced today that the Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) has awarded the contract for the VHA's nationwide teleradiology program serving more than 150 Veteran's Health Administration Medical Centers.
March 15, 2007... In other grants news: ScImage (Los Altos, California), an enterprise imaging and information management company, based announced today that the Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) has awarded the contract for the VHA's nationwide...

Paternity test contradicts stem cell theory in breast cancer.(Back to the clonal hypothesis?)
March 15, 2007... The idea that tumors contain a limited subset of cancer stem cells which keep cancer going is currently generating a lot of excitement--as well as searches for the stem cells in question--among cancer researchers. Find the stem cells, the...

BioMerieux.(People in Places)
March 15, 2007... Mojgan Lefebvre has been named chief information officer at bioMerieux (Marcy L'etoile, France). Lefebvre will take leadership both for management of information systems and R&D information technologies. Previously, Lefebvre was international...

BioSystems International.(People in Places)
March 15, 2007... Jean Pierre Tirouflet has been named CEO of BioSystems International (Evry, France). Previously, Tirouflet was CEO and chairman of the French specialty chemicals company Rhodia. BioSystems International is a biotech company developing...

Digirad.(People in Places)(Brief article)
March 15, 2007... Jamshid Maddahi, MD, has been named medical advisor for Digirad (Poway, California). Maddahi has served as director of the Biomedical Imaging Institute in Los Angeles. He has been a clinical professor of medicine (cardiology) and clinical...

Point Biomedical.(People in Places)
March 15, 2007... Thomas Feldman has joined Point Biomedical (San Carlos, California) as president/CEO, and member of the board of directors. Feldman formerly was president/CBO at Cotherix. Point is developing technology platforms for imaging applications.

Nanosys, Bruker form R&D pact for TOF mass spectrometers.(Agreements roundup)
March 15, 2007... Nanosys (Palo Alto, California) and Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts) have entered into a broad R&D collaboration and distribution agreement for Nanosys' nanotechnology-enabled matrix-free target plates for use primarily with Bruker's...

Premier Purchasing Partners (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported new agreements for its core laboratory products portfolio, including agreements for capital equipment, supplies, consumables and service for integrated platforms, immunochemistry, hematology, hemostasis and urinalysis products and services.(Agreements roundup)
March 15, 2007... Premier Purchasing Partners (Charlotte, North Carolina) reported new agreements for its core laboratory products portfolio, including agreements for capital equipment, supplies, consumables and service for integrated platforms, immunochemistry,...

TOP program launched.(Briefly Noted)(Bacterial Artificial Chromosome array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Technical Only Program)(Brief article)
March 15, 2007... Acacia Research (Newport Beach, California) reported that, after a successful beta test, its CombiMatrix group's subsidiary, CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics CMDX), has launched its Bacterial Artificial Chromosome array Comparative Genomic...

Innogenetics wins injunction vs. Abbott in appeals court.(Court report)
March 15, 2007... Innogenetics (Gent, Belgium) reported last week that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made its first substantive ruling in Abbott's appeal of a trial court's judgment and injunction in favor of Innogenetics. Innogenetics said...