Roche Diagnostics announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the cobas® 8000 modular analyzer series, a Serum Work Area solution designed for diagnostic laboratories with a workload of 3-15 million clinical chemistry / immunochemistry tests per year. The cobas 8000 series is the newest member of the Roche cobas modular platform family, which combines clinical chemistry and immunochemistry testing.

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Oxford Expression Technologies (OET) has introduced baculoQUANT™, a novel one-step virus titration kit which can give an accurate result within 2 hours without the need for plaque assays or immunoassays. baculoQUANT™ is based on a technique called quantitative PCR (QPCR) and is a fast and cost-effective method of recombinant virus titration. This novel titration method has been proven to be a very accurate, reproducible and fast way to titrate recombinant baculoviruses1, both for single-use titrations and for high throughput applications on automated systems.