antibody-based method

It Doesn’t Have To Be Molecular To Be A Good Pathogen Test

Posted in: Blog, Food Safety, Market Insights by Bob Ferguson | Comments Off on It Doesn’t Have To Be Molecular To Be A Good Pathogen Test Friday, April 6, 2012

The Vidas UP Salmonella combines phage technology and a simplified process to improve specificity and speed results.

bioMerieux’s Vidas UP Salmonella test is good. It’s easy to use, provides excellent sensitivity/specificity, is fast and isn’t as expensive as comparable molecular methods. What’s not to like? read more…

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New BD Diagnostics and SDIX Collaboration: Will 1 + 1 = 3?

Posted in: Blog, Food Safety, In the News, Market Insights by Bob Ferguson | Comments Off on New BD Diagnostics and SDIX Collaboration: Will 1 + 1 = 3? Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New Partnerships Between Diagnostic Companies Have Created Synergies with the Potential to Deliver Real Innovation in Food Safety Testing.

In my last blog, I discussed Life Technologies’ acquisition of Matrix MicroScience. A new collaboration between SDIX and BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), also is intriguing. read more…

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