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  • Government makes new rule for clinical trial after consultation with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board that an audio - video recording of vulnerable subjects in clinical trials of New Chemical Entity or New Molecular Entity including procedure of providing information to the subject and his understanding on such consent, shall be maintained by the investigator for record.

  • Siemens Healthcare has launched three new scalable haematology systems: the ADVIA 360 System, ADVIA 560 System and ADVIA 560 AL System.
    The systems offer fast, high quality CBC testing, running up to 60 samples per hour. Automatic anti-clogging and cleaning procedures are employed to ensure results reliability. Along with automated maintenance, this reduces manual procedures and biohazard exposure. Other features include option for manual or automatic calibration procedures, a cap-piercing function for accurate and safer sampling, a multilingual operating menu and bidirectional LIS communication for easy patient data transfer between laboratories and minimised paper-based work lists.

  • A new study has now revealed that obesity leads to a stiffening of the meshwork material that surrounds fat cells in the breast, called the extracellular matrix, and these biomechanical changes creates the right conditions for the growth of tumors. The findings are published in Science Translational Medicine.

  • Nanoengineers at the University of California-San Diego have developed fish-shaped microrobots using an innovative 3D printing technology that can soon help deliver drugs efficiently to the targeted areas in the human body. Microfish can swim around efficiently in liquids, are chemically powered by hydrogen peroxide and magnetically controlled.  The research, led by Professors Shaochen Chen and Joseph Wang of the NanoEngineering Department at the UC San Diego, was published in the Aug. 12 issue of the journal Advanced Materials.

  • Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical research and industrial markets, has sold its proprietary nucleic acid heat elution purification technology to Roche. Roche has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Lumora for products associated with its proprietary nucleic acid heat elution purification technology that is designed for use with clinical specimens.

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