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Onboard reagent stability, open control vial
stability, and calibration frequency are all 28
days.
Olympus America Inc.
Circle No. 342 in the Reader Service Card
AU3000i® T-Uptake Assay
The 28-minute, one-step competitive,
paramagnetic particle Olympus AU3000i
T-Uptake assay quantifies the thyroxine
binding capacity of serum or lithium-
heparin plasma. The sample volume requirement
is 15 μL. The Olympus T-Uptake
results should be used with an Olympus
Total T4 determination to calculate the FTI.
Reagents are ready-to-use. Onboard reagent,
open control vial stability, and calibration
frequency are all 28 days.
Olympus America Inc.
Circle No. 343 in the Reader Service Card
AU3000i® Total ß-hCG Assay*
The 28-minute, two-step, paramagnetic particle
Olympus AU3000i Total ß-hCG assay
determines quantitative concentrations of
total ß-hCG using 50 μL of human serum
or lithium-heparin plasma. The measuring
range is approximately 0.05–1000 mIU/L
and the expected working imprecision is ≤
6% (total CV). Reagents are ready to use.
Onboard reagent stability, open control vial
stability, and calibration frequency are all 28
days. *Pending FDA clearance.
Olympus America Inc.
Circle No. 344 in the Reader Service Card
Track-based Automation System
Olympus America Inc. announces a
non-exclusive distribution agreement
with Thermo Fisher Scientific/Clinical
Diagnostics Finland for its TCAutomation
laboratory automation offering. The new
product offering will complement existing
Olympus Lab Automation products.
Customers will be able to create best-ofbreed
comprehensive solutions incorporating
Olympus AU®-series clinical chemistry
and immunoassay analyzers, including
various third-party analyzers. The open,
track-based system will offer medium-sized
to large hospital and regional laboratories
unprecedented flexibility and access to
additional test capabilities. It will also allow
customers to consolidate and automate such
sample processing procedures as decapping,
centrifugation, aliquoting, recapping, and
storage/retrieval.
Olympus America Inc.
Circle No. 345 in the Reader Service Card
26 CliniCal laboratory news JuLy 2008
2008 NEw Pr o d u c t rE v i E w
DSX® Reagent Barcode Scanning System
Save time, effort, and reduce reagent identification
error rates with Dynex Technologies’
new Reagent Barcode Scanning capability
for the DSX microplate processing system
(including software upgrade). We’ve worked
closely with our OEM solutions partners to
develop custom reagent racks for the kits
they’ve integrated with the DSX. No need to
decant reagents into other bottles; the hardware/software
package scans the kit-bottle
barcode information and automatically
incorporates it into the kit assay protocol and
report. Easy. Accurate. Automatic. And more
cost-effective!
Dynex Technologies
Circle No. 347 in the Reader Service Card
Design & Engineering Services
Introducing Dynex Technologies’ latest
business offering—design and engineering
services for collaborative product develop-
ment. We’re experts in microplate automation
for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology—
from robotic handling and fluid
pipetting and dispensing, to incubation,
detection, and washing. And we know how
to take a product from initial concept to
market-leading position. Is your unique and
proprietary assay ready for market, except a
dedicated system to run it on? Work with the
designers and engineers behind the technology
of the celebrated Dynex DSX® and DS2®
automated microplate processing systems—
we’ll help you develop custom components,
or a complete system, that’s ideal for your
application.
Dynex Technologies
Circle No. 348 in the Reader Service Card
DSX® for Bead-Based Assays
Has your lab expanded beyond ELISA to
the latest bead-based multiplexed assays?
Improve results over manual microplate
methods with the fully automated Dynex
DSX microplate processing system. You’ve
seen the benefits of DSX automation on
ELISA. Now, Dynex Technologies’ economical
dual-mode washer module expands the
capabilities of the market-leading DSX. Run
up to four microplates, each with traditional
ELISA assays using solid-bottom plates—
or bead-based assays using filter plates—
simultaneously and in any combination! For
bead-based assays, an adjustable vacuum
manifold provides optimal bottom aspiration
of a variety of plate designs and filter
pore sizes to assure critical levels of accuracy,
reproducibility, and throughput.
Dynex Technologies, Inc.
Circle No. 349 in the Reader Service Card
Deep-Well No-Waste DSX® Strips
The DSX automated ELISA processing
system from Dynex Technologies uses deep
wells for sample dilution, previously available
only in deep-well blocks of 96 (12 x 8)
wells—until now. Introducing Dynex’s
Deep-Well No-Waste Strips (with holder).
These economical deep-well strips, comprising
eight wells each, eliminate waste
from discarding and increase security from
rotating partially used deep-well blocks. If
your ELISA assay doesn’t use all 96 wells of
our deep-well block, choose deep-well strips
instead. You’ll save significantly on your
consumable costs by loading only what you
need for your assay run!
Dynex Technologies, Inc.
Circle No. 350 in the Reader Service Card
FREND Immunoassay Analyzer
This new-generation, FREND LOC-based
immunoassay analyzer was developed with
a new philosophy and technology. Sample
volume is just 10 μL with a 5-minute time to
result. This product is a total solution for
labs and represents one of the leading
near-patient testing instruments. Our first
combination panel will be very valuable for
ACS and AMI patients (CK-MB, troponin I,
and myoglobin). Research and development
will be continued for NT-pro BNP, D-dimer,
DOA, and others.
NanoEnTek Incorporated
Circle No. 352 in the Reader Service Card
FREND Cardiac Panel
Our first combination panel will be very
valuable for ACS and AMI patients. The
FREND Cardiac Panel includes CK-MB,
troponin I, and myoglobin. The panels runs
on the new generation, FREND LOC-based
immunoassay analyzer. Developed with a
new philosophy and technology, the analyzer
uses just a10-μl sample volume, and the time
to result is 5 minutes. This product is a total
solution for near-patient testing. Research
and development will be continued for NTpro
BNP, D-dimer, DOA and others.
NanoEnTek Incorporated
Circle No. 351 in the Reader Service Card
StatSpin® Centrifuge
Laboratories are going lean with single-piece
flow. Instead of batching samples and
loading them into conventional slow
centrifuges, labs can now process gel tubes
quickly with this new high-speed, horizontal
centrifuge. It spins eight samples in 3 minutes,
providing clean separation with a flat
gel barrier. Samples can be put directly on
the analyzer. It has a powerful, maintenancefree,
brushless motor, and the entire unit is
backed with a 2-year warranty. This highspeed,
horizontal centrifuge is the answer
to productivity and turnaround time in the
chemistry lab.
IRIS Sample Processing
Circle No. 353 in the Reader Service Card
Bedside Glucose and Creatinine Monitors
Nova StatStrip Glucose and StatSensor
Creatinine monitors are two new handheld,
whole-blood meters for POCT. StatStrip
Glucose test strips feature new Multi-Well
measuring technology that creates a new
class of analytical performance comparable
to central laboratory testing. The StatStrip
Glucose monitor measures and eliminates
interferences from hematocrit, maltose, oxygen,
acetaminophen, ascorbic acid, and uric
acid, while the StatSensor monitor measures
creatinine in whole blood in just 30 seconds
and calculates eGFR by MDRD or Cockroft-
Gault equations. The StatSensor Creatinine
monitor’s small 1.2-μL sample volume allows
easy and virtually painless sample acquisition
from a finger prick.
NOVA BIOMEDICAL
Circle No. 354 in the Reader Service Card
ELISA Microplate Processor
The ESP600 instrument offers the
laboratory a new, powerful level of ELISA