BioCision LLC announces today the launch of a new product
- the
HistoMailer - for safely sending tissue blocks for laboratory analysis. The
HistoMailer represents the first in a series of products designed to
specifically address the need for safe, reliable transfer of samples between
laboratories.
"We immediately recognized the need for a
reliable tool to ship paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, which can melt during
transport if not packaged correctly," said Hugh Douglas, BioCision's Chief
Operating Officer. "The HistoMailer is a great fit with our expanding
product portfolio of integrated solutions for biomedical sample
handling from preparation to shipping. In the coming months, we will be
introducing additional products to serve the specific tissue processing needs
of clinical histology and pathology labs."
The HistoMailer was originally developed by
technicians at Mayo Medical Laboratories, which receives approximately 30,000
specimens per day from hospitals across the country. According to Mayo
Clinic Operations Coordinator Jeff Wills, "The HistoMailer provides end users
with a value add when transporting lab specimens. The container is a
full-circle tool, from start to finish and provides Mayo with the opportunity
to become more green. Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and
Pathology is currently using the technology, along with over one-thousand users
across our client base." Wills is also an inventor of the
HistoMailer technology.
"Working with leading academic institutions to develop new tools
and products is an important part of BioCision's overall strategy to best serve
biomedical researchers and clinicians," said BioCision's CEO Rolf Ehrhardt, MD,
PhD.
BioCision specializes in benchtop products that ensure consistency,
reproducibility and standardization of laboratory samples, with applications in
drug discovery, and basic and clinical research. Users benefit from high sample
reproducibility and consistency - experiment to experiment, lab to lab and
research/clinical site to site.
Mayo Clinic and Mr. J. Willis have
a financial interest in the technology referenced in this news release.
About BioCision
BioCision®, headquartered
in Mill Valley,
CA, is committed to
the standardization of pre-analytical sample handling. They are the
leading global developer of benchtop sample and assay management tools that
enable collection, organization, protection, freezing, thawing, cooling and
cryopreservation of samples in a consistent and highly reproducible manner.
BioCision's patent-pending line of benchtop tools include CoolRack®, CoolSink
TM
and CoolTray
TM thermo-conductive tube and plate modules; CoolBox
TM ice-free
portable cooling/freezing containers; CoolCell® alcohol-free maintenance-free
cell freezing containers; and accessories.
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