In the News This Week: State-of-the-Art Food Testing, Monitoring Food-Borne Disease & Scientists’ Choice Awards

Read our top news stories from this week:

First Fluorimetric Assay for Measuring Glutaminyl Cyclase Activity
AnaSpec is pleased to announce the release of the first commercially available 96-well format, fluorimetric assay for measuring Glutaminyl Cyclase (QC) activity - the SensoLyte® Green Glutaminyl Cyclase Activity Assay Kit.

Monitoring Food-Borne Disease Outbreaks in the U.S.
Sonia Nicholas, Clinical Diagnostics Editor, interviews John Besser, PhD, Deputy Chief, Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch, CDC. Read the article to find out more about the PulseNet network, its role in identifying foodborne disease outbreaks, and current and future challenges facing the laboratories.

State-of the-Art, Full Service Analytical Food Testing
Bioo Scientific’s Lab Testing Group offers full service testing for contaminants in complex food matrices using state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and analytical testing methods, including high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis and ELISA.

SelectScience Opens Nominations for the Scientists' Choice Best New Clinical Laboratory Product of the Year 2013
SelectScience is inviting laboratory scientists and point-of-care professionals to nominate products for the best new Clinical Laboratory Product of the Year 2013. The Scientists’ Choice Awards create the opportunity for laboratory scientists to nominate and vote for the diagnostic product which they feel has most significantly contributed to the work of clinical laboratories.