Biofire
美國Biofire Diagnostics www.biofiredx.com
美國Idaho公司是致力于研發生命科學領域中用于微生物鑒定和核酸分析的快速高效的分析儀器的高科技公司，產品包括DNA擴增的RapidCycler PCR，實時熒光定量PCR LightScanner 32，高分辨率熔解曲線分析LightScanner96/384及HR-1，突變檢測和基因分型等。Idaho公司在Mutation Discovery和Genotyping科研領域中具有世界頂尖科技的產品。此外，在水及食品安全檢測領域具有領先的產品可科技。
Light Scanner 高分辨溶解曲線基因突變/基因分型檢測系統是美國Idaho公司經過7年的潛心研發而商品化的世界上第一臺專門用于快速基因突變掃描和基因分型的高通量檢測系統，5分鐘即可完成96/384孔板樣品突變檢測，尤其用于測序前的大規模突變篩查及基因分型工作，使測序的工作量降低為原來的1%。此外LightScanner還可以檢測到體細胞樣品中比例低至0.1%的突變，特別適用于Cancer及流行病學大規模篩查。
美國Idaho公司高分辨基因突變掃描和基因分型分析系統.LightScanner是第一臺利用高分辨熔解曲線進行高通量（96或384孔PCR板系統）的基因突變掃描和基因分型分析的儀器。它具有極好的敏感性和特異性，其優勢充分體現在溫度控制和數據獲取率。適合高通量樣品篩查項目。只需在PCR反應上加入LCGreen染色劑，樣品經PCR擴增后將PCR板轉放入LightScanner儀器中進行熔解曲線分析。
2014年生物梅里埃完成收購BioFire Diagnostics
2012年Idaho Technology公司更名為BioFire Diagnostics
BioFire Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held clinical diagnostics company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1990, the Company currently holds over 70 patents related to polymerase chain reaction (PCR), including rapid PCR cycling. The Company has used its extensive patent portfolio to successfully market nearly 200 products to the clinical, research and military markets.
Our complement of products includes the R.A.P.I.D.®, R.A.P.I.D. LT, and RAZOR® EX Systems and the LightScanner®, LightScanner 32 and FilmArray® Instruments along with an expanding line of freeze-dried reagents and DNA/RNA purification and test kits. Now in our twenty-second year, we are making great strides to ensure that our products remain efficient and user-friendly.
The Company also collaborates with various U.S. governmental agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense. Among others, researchers, medical technicians, law enforcement officers, and soldiers in the field use company devices to detect or study disease-causing organisms.
