Month: March 2008

FDA 510(K) Approval for Diazyme’s Enzymatic Total Bile Acids Assay

Diazyme Laboratories, Poway, Calif, which develops diagnostic products for clinical and research uses, says the FDA has granted 510(K) clearance for marketing its Enzymatic Total Bile Acids assay kit for the quantitative determination of the acids in human blood samples.

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Spit Tests May Eclipse Many Blood Tests

Soon patients may spit in a cup instead of braving a needle prick when being tested for cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. A detour in that direction is cataloging of the complete salivary proteome, a set of proteins in human ductal saliva, identified by a consortium of three research teams, according to an article in the Journal of Proteome Research.

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