omh8 Jan 2010 20:57
Osmetech plc, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and sale of molecular diagnostics instruments and consumables enabling deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid and protein testing. The Company is an international healthcare diagnostics business with operations in Boston and Pasadena in the United States, serving the Molecular Diagnostics market targeting hospitals and reference laboratories. Osmetech Molecular Diagnostics has primarily been built through the acquisition and subsequent development of the businesses of Clinical Micro Sensors Inc. (CMS). Osmetech Molecular Diagnostics is focused on providing molecular diagnostic technologies and tools that enable a range of hospitals and laboratories to offer molecular diagnostic services for improved patient care. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the useful economic lives of the e-Sensor 4800 instruments were reviewed as a result of the transition to the eSensor XT-8 platform.