What You Need To Know About Diagnostic Reagents

Lifecycle Biotechnologies is the leader in products and services that make up the beginning of the cycle of lifesaving and life-enhancing medical products that are used around the world. Our role as a life sciences tools and service provider is one that we take extremely seriously, as we know that our products affect the quality and efficacy of a wide range of products being used in research and on patients.

Today we wanted to talk about an important product that we supply through one of our brands, Chata Biosystems. Diagnostic reagents play a major role in medical labs, helping to produce test results through diagnostic testing assays. Whether they are chemical, or biochemical in design, diagnostic reagents can be used to generate accurate and precise patient test results.

To do that, the reagents rely upon several different components that must work together. All diagnostic reagents work through a similar process. A patient’s test sample is placed in a reaction vessel with one or more diagnostic reagents, which begins a chemical reaction.

The mixture is then incubated at a certain temperature for a length of time. Once that time limit is reached, the reaction is stopped and any changes are observed. That change can include a change in color, a change in the intensity of light produced, a change in the optical density or turbidity of the mixture, or a variety of other differences.

That change is then measured against another known change, and a conclusion is calculated and becomes a test result.

• Chemical diagnostic reagents are the most basic, using one or two-reagent systems, and they can be used for a variety of tests, including measuring serum albumin concentrations.

• Biochemical reagents are more complex, and are often enzyme-driven. A well-known example is the diagnostic reagent that is used to determine amounts of glucose in sample.

• There is also a third group of diagnostic reagents that are biological and biochemical. These reagent systems are extremely complex, and are usually used to measure analytes that occur in the body in low concentrations. Even with their complexity, they operate in basically the same way as other diagnostic reagents.

It’s clear that diagnostic reagents play a major role in the medical field, and that means that their production is a serious matter. At Lifecycle, we take our role as a leader in the industry seriously because we know how much is on the line when it comes to our products and services. Our products may not be used to actually diagnose, treat, or cure patients, but without the services we provide, none of that would be possible.

The diagnostic reagents that we manufacture are of the highest quality, meeting and exceeding regulations. All of them are manufactured in our FDA site registered facility under a quality management system certified to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 standards, with fully traceable batch records for each customer.

If you also add in the Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) we make at out Boval BioSolutions brand to support the diagnostics industry, it truly makes us your ideal partner. BSA is a common blocking agent because of its binding properties and it can greatly reduce contamination binding that can interfere in common molecular biology assays. It is also used as a blocking agent in many other clinical applications including diagnostic procedures.

With so much on the line, it just makes sense to turn to the experts in diagnostic reagent manufacturing. Contact us today to learn more.