Jan Sinnige

Clinical Microbiologist, MD at Red Cross Burn Center Beverwijk, The Netherlands. PhD Candidate in molecular epidemiology of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE). Living in Amsterdam.

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Diagnostics

May 13th, 2014 Beckman Coulter has unveiled its new random access molecular diagnostics system, the VERIS MDx, at the European Conference on Clinincal Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Barcelona this week. The VERIS MDx system and VERIS CMV assay received CE mark earlier this year. The system offers automated nucleic acid extraction,...
Informatics

January 14th, 2014 Huge networks like Google and Facebook inspire many scientists to model interactions between people. Posts can go 'viral' and grow to pandemic proportions in a few hours; today's infectious diseases spread faster through social media than in real life. These networks can also help with real diseases and to that end Google monitors the...
Diagnostics

June 26th, 2013 bioMérieux (Marcy l'Etoile, France) received the CE Mark for the firm's third generation VIDAS immunoassay system. Many laboratories in the world run their automated immunoassays on a VIDAS system. All kind of biomolecules can be detected with this diagnostics platform, like infectious disease serology, but also cardiac, thyroid and...
Diagnostics

June 5th, 2013 GE Healthcare has introduced MultiOmyx, a new platform for diagnostics in cancer biology. The system can analyze tumor samples on single cell level by studying the expression of more than 175 different proteins and disease markers per cell. Multiple stains can be added to a tumor slice and tumor antibodies directed to proteins of...
Diagnostics

May 23rd, 2013 AB SCIEX, Framingham, MA,  announced CE approval for their API 3200 MD series of mass spectrometers. Mass spectrometry is the new revolution in routine diagnostics as more and more laboratories now offer protein and biomarker analysis at high speed for low costs. With tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) the order of amino acids can be...
Critical Care

November 15th, 2012 The design of the limited space in a helicopter cabin should be efficient and give easy access to monitoring and other medical devices. Thomas Weig and Stephan Prueckner are two senior physicians at the department of anesthesiology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and both work as air medical physicians at DRF Luftrettung in...
Diagnostics

November 14th, 2012 The Eco Real-Time PCR System from Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, offers four-color multiplex analysis of 48 samples per run, and more important, it can be styled with any of your favorite skins. Just peel and apply a new skin when you are ready for a change. A stable temperature control is essential for the amplification process,...
Dentistry

July 26th, 2012 Carestream Health, Inc., introduced the new CS 1200 intraoral camera with an image resolution of 1024 x 768, a video resolution of 640 x 480 and a focus range of 3mm-25mm. This device can provide clear views of all anatomical structures in your patient's mouth. Small details like cracks and caries can be made visible to you and your...
Diagnostics

July 20th, 2012 Roche has announced the release of the Cobas B 123 Point-of-care (POC) blood gas analyzer in the United States. The system delivers the regular blood gas parameters together with electrolytes, glucose and lactate within 2 minutes. One of the problems in point of care blood analyzers is clot formation. A special protection system helps...
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