Global participants unveil latest products

Industry leaders from all over the world have taken the ongoing China International Import Expo as the ideal platform to release their most up-to-date products and technologies.

Massachusetts-headquartered biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific released on the fourth day of the second CIIE its Ion Torrent Genexus System, a specimen-to-report next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform. Vincent Shu, senior sales director of Thermo Fisher China, said the platform can provide genomic testing results for acute and severe diseases such as lung cancer in a single day. Before that, it would take at least one month to get the results.

After its release at the CIIE, the machine will enter the certificate application procedure in the Chinese market, the company said. All the test reagents developed by Thermo Fisher can be used on the machine. With the machine released to the world at the same time, China will be given priority in using the equipment, said Shu.