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    Services for Assay Developers
    & Manufacturers

  • Contract assay development
  • Contract manufacturing
  • Education and training
  • Consulting
    Products for Assay Developers
    & Manufacturers

  • Digital assay readers
  • Assay components
  • Sample handling
  • Reagents
  • Materials
    Services for Technology
    & Component Providers

  • Product evaluation
    and validation
  • Market evaluation
  • Affiliates network
  • Technology evaluation
  • Marketing and distribution
    Diagnostic Applications

  • Medical
  • Veterinary
  • Forensics
  • Consumer
  • Agricultural
  • Microbiology
  • Biowarfare / Biodefense
  • Food, water, and environmental

 

DCN is a provider of services and products to the rapid assay industry. Our primary services are contract assay development, contract manufacturing, education and training and a variety of consulting services, with a wide range of supporting products, including digital readers, assay materials, and critical reagents. We specialize in lateral flow and flow through formats, working with visual, fluorescent and paramagnetic labels. High sensitivity and quantitative systems are our specialty.

DCN is unique in the industry in that we can deliver services and products related to all elements of the assay system, from sample handling to assay design and manufacture, through to reading technology. Our other unique feature is that, in addition to serving assay developers and manufacturers, we provide comprehensive services to the companies that make the assays possible – the technology, component and service providers, as well as the investment community.

DCN was founded in 2002 by experts with, collectively, over 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and marketing of lateral flow and flow through test technology. We combine a practical approach that brings products to market quickly, with high level market awareness and a focus on evaluating emerging, useful technologies early, so that we can provide the best possible solutions to our clients’ assay system development needs.

We are a technology oriented company, striving to improve the quality of point of need rapid assays, to broaden the scope of their application and to pass those benefits through to our clients. We work in markets as broad as clinical diagnostics, veterinary diagnostics, biowarfare, food science, microbiology, environmental health and safety, forensics, agriculture and consumer testing.

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