News

PATHFAST® POCT System for Cardiovascular Diagnostics

2011-02-11. PROGEN and Mitsubishi Chemical Europe GmbH Sign an Exclusive Distribution Contract for the PATHFAST® POCT System in Germany. Effective immediately, PROGEN Biotechnik GmbH distributes the PATHFAST® Analyzer system of Mitsubishi Chemical Europe GmbH in Germany.

Expanding Competence in Luminex® Technology

2011-01-14. PROGEN / Multimetrix acquire Testing Service from Microbionix

Exclusive distribution agreement with Asuragen

2010-10-28. PROGEN distributes Asuragen products in Germany

PROGEN/ Multimetrix have signed a cooperation agreement with MIKROGEN

2010-10-19. Cooperation in the field of Luminex xMAP® technology

New Tests for Diagnosis of Borreliosis Approved for Use as CE IVD Products

2010-09-01. Additional CE certified tests from PROGEN / Multimetrix for a two-step diagnostic of Lyme Borreliosis are approved for laboratory diagnosis.

Successful Certification

2010-08-01. PROGEN receives EN ISO 13485 certificate

anti-p62 Protein C terminus antibody

Useful for research in ubiquitin-associated degradation and autophagy and for detection of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain of Alzheimer disease patients, in Parkinson diseases and various chronic liver diseases. Human p62 protein, present in intracytoplasmic inclusions is found in many tissues and cells, serving probably a common cellular signal transduction mechanism.

Borrelia Screening Tests CE approved

• simultaneous detection of IgG antibodies against Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii lysates
• simultaneous detection of IgM antibodies against B. afzelii lysate, OspC B. afzelii and OspC B. garinii recombinant antigens
• IgG Test applicable for serum and cerebrospinal fluid
• for use with the Luminex 100 / 200 platform

Hantavirus

Increasing cases of Hantavirus infection in Germany - The statistics provided by the Robert Koch-Institut in the Epidemiologisches Bulletin Nr. 29 from July 26, 2010 confirm a strong rise of notified cases compared to last year. PROGEN offers tests for the serological diagnosis of hantavirus infection.

Hyperphage

an effective tool for the isolation of recombinant antibodies. Advantage over conventional methods:

• increases panning efficiency
• allows panning with reduced amount of panning antigen
• identifies high and low affinity binders

Plakophilin 2 antibodies

Plakophilin 2 is a member of the arm-repeat family of proteins and assembles with other proteins to form the desmosomal plaque in simple and glandular epithelia, the basal layer of certain stratified epithelia, all layers of some stratified epithelia, and desmosome possessing non-epithelial cells, e. g. myocardium.

Biomarker Assays

Multiplex assays based on Luminex Technology with flexible panels: Choose from a large portfolio:

• Permanently growing number of analytes
• Fast, sensitive and reliable detection of analytes
• Species-specific cytokine assays available: human, mouse, rat, non-human primate, porcine, canine