Lucigen Continues Development of POC Platform, C Diff Test

Aug 19, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Lucigen is continuing to develop a point-of-care molecular diagnostic platform with an initial assay designed for Clostridium difficile detection. The firm described the platform and preliminary results of trials using a prototype yesterday at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Next Generation Dx Summit in Washington, DC.

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