Selection of the current most important products and product groups

Tecan supplies several well-known and widely used instruments to leading diagnostics companies. One partner has for example combined the automation system developed by Tecan with its own reagent cassettes to determine blood types and other important blood parameters. All the work steps in this system solution are fully automated, from pipetting, incubation and centrifugation all the way to results analysis.

Another example is one of the most successful molecular diagnostic platforms. It is marketed by the partner as a system solution jointly with a wide range of different molecular diagnostic tests. Applications include, for example, therapy monitoring in HIV or hepatitis patients and detection of sexually transmitted infections.

Detection instruments from Tecan are also modified for distribution by OEM customers and adapted to the partner’s corporate design. They can also be integrated into fully-automated laboratory solutions.

Dako Omnis, a new platform for automated advanced staining for tissue-based cancer diagnostics, was launched by Dako onto the market in 2013. The system automates both of the established processes for the diagnosis of abnormal cells: immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in-situ hybridization (ISH). These methods are used to add antibodies to stain the cell structures of the tissue samples that are key to diagnosis. Details on the Dako Omnis and the application can be found on pages 4 and 7.