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New Products: Siemens' Protein S Assay

Aug 31, 2012
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics this week introduced its new Innovance Free Protein S Antigen assay for free protein S antigen testing.

The assay uses polystyrene particles coated with monoclonal antibodies to test for free protein S and is intended to complement Siemens' existing protein S activity assay, providing a complete protein S testing menu, the company said.

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