Press ReleasesPerkinElmer Acquires China-based Infectious Disease Diagnostics Company
Addition of Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech to Complement Screening Capabilities & Allow PerkinElmer to Enter Growing Chinese Nucleic Acid-based Blood Screening Market
Haoyuan, a supplier of molecular infectious disease screening
technologies for blood bank and clinical laboratory settings throughout
"By combining PerkinElmer's robust disease screening capabilities with
Haoyuan's proprietary reagents and equipment, the Company will be able
to offer highly sensitive systems and assays for quality detection of
blood-borne infections for the Chinese market," said
Facing an annual 15% increase in the demand for blood, the Chinese
government is now mandating and funding infectious disease screening of
donated blood. The Chinese government's latest 5-year plan mandates that
all blood be tested using nucleic acid technologies by the end of 2015.
Compared to antibody testing methods, nucleic acid testing reduces the
potential for failed detection of certain infection diseases that
exhibit long incubation times between infection and detection. There are
approximately 780,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in
The Haoyuan acquisition enables
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