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• DPC Immulite installation base in India crosses the mark of 125 instruments across the country. Immulite is now being used in big reference laboratories, hospital laboratories, stand-alone laboratories and clinical research laboratories that include NABL and CAP accredited laboratories.
• Sebia of France - Launched their fully automated capillary electrophoresis system – CAPPILLARYS 2, which uses the most sophisticated technology available today. CAPILLARYS 2 provides a high level of performance addressing the most stringent requirements of clinical diagnostic laboratories. The CAPILLARYS 2 provides complete walk-away automation from start to finish. Designed for continuous sample feed, the operator simply places a bar coded primary sample tube on the instrument and walks away. It currently offers a menu of traditional and innovative assays that include: Proteins (with no lipid interferences), Immunotyping (an automated alternative to immunofixation testing), HR (High Resolution protein separation), CDT (Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferring) to detect alcohol abuse, and Haemoglobin.
• Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC) and Compugen announced a broad diagnostic collaboration for the development and commercialisation of novel diagnostic products, with an anticipated focus in cancer and cardiovascular fields. Terms of this agreement allow DPC to develop and commercialise immunoassay and nucleic-acid based diagnostic products based on Compugen’s discovered bio markers. These include certain bio marker candidates already discovered by Compugen, and additional candidates arising out
  of the collaboration.
• DPC recently won an M2M magazine value chain award for their innovative internet based service and support product, DPC Real Time Solutions. M2M, a leading publication covering machine-to-machine communications, honoured the winners of the 2005 value chain awards on June 28, 2005 at the M2M United Conference in Chicago . The value chain award honours the most successful adopters of M2M technology and their enablers, i.e., the teams of solution providers that made the success possible. The awards highlight the process of effectively combining multiple technologies, such as device-connectivity hardware, radio modules, network service and provisions, and application software & infrastructure.
• Trivitron installs Konelab 60, a fully automated, Random Access Chemistry analyzer, in India . Konelab 60 is manufactured by Thermo Electron , Finland , and has a throughput of 600 tests/ hour with very advanced software and all the features required by a laboratory with high test volumes. This system is being used by Lister Metropolis and the central diagnostic laboratory of Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Hospital, both in Chennai.