Magellan Diagnostics, the maker of a point-of-care blood lead analyzer, has announced an agreement to provide its LeadCare® II testing system to PDXWildlife at the Bifengxia Panda Base in Sichuan, China, for the study of lead exposure in captive giant pandas.
The environment in which captive giant pandas predominantly live, gives rise to the need to further understand the levels of lead to which these beautiful bears are being exposed. The more we understand the factors that are adversely affecting threatened and endangered species, the better suited we’ll be to assist in their recovery. Magellan’s donation of the LeadCare II test kits will help us better understand the effects that lead exposure might be having on the giant pandas around China’s urban centers.
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Sounds like good news to me!
Hi Frances,
Good news indeed. Hope your return flight went smoothly.
Nate-
This is so great! What a great, caring corporate citizen! Hope this only increases their success~
Hi JoAnn,
We’re really excited to be working with them. These “quick” studies are fun to work on as results come out very rapidly. Thanks for commenting.
Nate-