We celebrate the 1,000th SlideFeeder x80!

We have held this year's technical training for our distributors.

MetaSystems Probes participated in the 35th Tumor Genetics Workshop 2023 (Tumorgenetische Arbeitstagung) in Rostock, Germany.

Internal Technical Training Complete!

Our colleagues from MetaSystems LatAm welcomed Camila Venegas (from MICROX, Chile) and Alexander Romero Guzman (from KAIKA, Colombia) for an in-depth training in Buenos Aires.

MetaSystems India participated in a two-day hands-on FISH workshop on April 4-5.

Last week, MetaSystems India participated in a one-day hands-on FISH workshop.

On February 04 is World Cancer Day, and we would like to use this day as an opportunity to present our solutions for automated microscope-based imaging.

The MetaSystems team is looking forward to 2023 with great enthusiasm.

Another exciting year is slowly coming to an end.

After a year full of challenges and changes, there is no better time to thank our customers, partners, and friends for their loyalty and trust. We appreciate your understanding for any delays due to the exceptional situation and look forward to supporting you with our products and services in 2023.

It was a great pleasure to meet our distributors from around the world for the 20th time.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we have highlighted the automation of HER2 FISH microscopy.

Read how our collaboration with MLL Münchner Leukämielabor on AI-based chromosome analysis is reducing their turnaround time.

The case and image management software called Neon is an integrated part of Ikaros, the karyotyping software, and Metafer, the slide scanning software. We have highlighted some of the unique features of Neon.

Following a radiation accident, a rapid assessment of the dose received by victims is critical. Biological dosimetry allows a range of tests, many of which are based on microscopy, to provide a retrospective estimate of the dose received.

On May 26, 2022, In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR; Regulation (EU) 2017|746) becomes mandatory and replaces the In Vitro Diagnostics Directive (IVDD; Directive 98/79/EC). However, a progressive roll-out of the new IVDR was decided for existing products.

We are following the current events in Ukraine with great concern. We have therefore decided to suspend our deliveries to Russia until further notice.

After becoming aware of the security vulnerability in the Java library Log4j, we immediately investigated the matter. After a careful review, we can inform you that MetaSystems’ software is not affected by the Log4j security gap.

35 Years of MetaSystems
Today and Tomorrow

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Automate and standardize forensic sperm detection with the help of artificial intelligence! Meet us at EAFS 2022 in Stockholm.

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The congress is intended for laboratory professionals from biomedical laboratory scientists, chemists, and physicians to microbiologists, geneticists, etc., and also product importers and manufacturers in the field.

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Last Friday, 05/28/2021, we noticed a criminal attack on MetaSystems accounts. As a result, the attackers sent eMails that appeared to have been written and sent by MetaSystems employees. Please note that these mails were not sent by MetaSystems!

Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts for the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany visited MetaSystems to get an impression of the work of this 'Hidden Champion' in life sciences sector.

An unusual year is now almost behind us. We would like to thank all our customers, partners and friends for staying with us through these difficult times.

MetaSystems is pleased to announce that our website is now available in Spanish. With this change and the previously launched Portuguese language version, our customers and all interested parties from Latin America and Spain will be able to read information in their local language.

Lately it was discovered that many networked devices are vulnerable to remote attacks through 19 vulnerabilities. The flaws, collectively known as Ripple20, affect the TCP/IP stack. Unfortunately, also PC hardware used in combination with MetaSystems devices may be affected, and problems may arise if the network settings are not configured correctly or the workstation is connected directly to the internet. We therefore encourage our customers to update their system(s) to the latest firmware versions provided by the manufacturer.

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to global efforts to understand the mechanisms of the virus-induced Covid-19 disease and to seek to find effective countermeasures. In this context, our daughter company MetaSystems Italy joined forces with RNA-FISH specialist PixelBiotech for development of highly sensitive and precise SARS-Covid-2 probes.

Download the leaflet with details about the new technology here.

MetaSystems is pleased to announce that our website is also now available in Brazilian Portuguese. With this change, our customers and all interested parties from one of our largest markets in Latin America will be able to read information in their local language.

The worldwide outbreak of the Sars-CoV-2 virus has led to severe limitations. In many places lab employees are confined to their homes. Working remotely from home may be the only way to assure a continued high level of diagnostic services.

Against the background of the worldwide appearance of the Corona virus (Sars CoV-2), the most important task for everyone at present is to contribute to slowing down its speed of propagation by adapting their behavior. Nevertheless, we are striving to maintain our services as far as possible and provide our customers and partners with the usual good service.

About 100 guests from 36 countries met on the XVIII. MetaSystems Distributor Meeting (DM) in November to exchange experiences and to get to know new trends and developments at MetaSystems.

Neon, the outstanding MetaSystems case and image management system, offers many tools and helpful gadgets to streamline routine workflows, for example in cytogenetics labs. The second MetaSystems User Day, addressed to MetaSystems clients from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, provided in different workshops knowledge helping to unleash the full power of the system.

The Congress 'Genetics of XXI Century' in Moscow, Russia (May 2019) has been one of the most important events for the professional international community of geneticists. Our partner company in Russia OOO MetaSystems considered it a good occasion to present the new camera CoolCube 4 connected to a state-of-the-art Neon system to the public.

N.N.Burdenko National Scientific and Practical Center for Neurosurgery is one of the first MetaSystems’ customers in Russia who implemented FISH on tissues into their daily practice ( in the late 90ies). Our partner in Russia, OOO MetaSystems therefore provides comprehensive support of all initiatives shown by the head of pathology lab and its staff.

The Korea Institute of Toxicology (KIT) is a government-funded research institute to evaluate the safety of medicine, bio-related products and chemicals such as agricultural pesticides, food additives and cosmetics, environmental toxicity and ecotoxicity. As a leading provider of non-clinical toxicology studies, KIT serves as a core infrastructure in the biotechnology industry. In May 2019, Dr. Seong-Hoon Park from KIT organized the first KIT Workshop for Automated Genetic Toxicology Testing. On this event, which was kindly supported by Mirax Corporation, local and overseas speakers summarized current proceedings in the automation of genetic toxicology test analysis.

The meeting of the German Society of Human Genetics (gfh) was held in Weimar, Germany this week and of course the attendees had the opportunity to visit the joined booth of MetaSystems and MetaSystems Probes. Main topics of the exhibition have been the latest advancements of the Neon case and imaging platform and RapidHyb, the revolutionary fast hybridization times of MetaSystems Probes' FISH probes.

An "International Workshop on Genomic Instability: Basic and Applied Aspects" was jointly organized by Environmental Mutagen Society of India (EMSI) and School of Bio-sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. Wilner Martinez-Lopez (Biological Research Institute “Cemente Estable”-Uruguay, IIBCE) and Prof. Radha Saraswathy (School of Bio-sciences and Technology, VIT).

MetaSystems proudly announces the opening of our first subsidiary in the Southern hemisphere. The new office is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina and bears the name MetaSystems Latinoamérica SAS (MetaSystems LatAm). The foundation has been the response to the growing demand on technical knowledge and 'know how' experienced in the last years all over the Latin American territories. MetaSystems LatAm takes care for the organization of sales, support, and customer relation activities in all countries in Latin America. It will manage distributor companies and contacts in the region, and it will facilitate communication between end-users, distributors and headquarters in Germany.

Carl Zeiss Microscopy, longtime partner of MetaSystems,  recently published a technical note entitled "Light Microscopy in Clinical Routine Activities. An Overview of ZEISS Axio Imager and Metafer from MetaSystems". The brochure summarizes the history of Metafer and the fruitful partnership with Carl Zeiss and combines both with background knowledge on the many applications Metafer is used for.

A “Hands-on Workshop on FISH and its application in Pathology and Clinical Medicine” was organized by MetaSystems and Department of Pathology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) to demonstrate the applications of FISH in hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

As the first abroad office of MetaSystems, MetaSystems Group, Inc. (MGI) will turn 25 years in 2019. Therefore the company, being the official organizer of the 2018 MetaSystems Distributor Meeting (DM) took advantage of this fact and Dr. Uli Klingbeil, founder of MGI, presented the history of the company on this event. As an acknowledgement of all staff members who helped turning MGI into the thriving enterprise it today is, the company celebrated its birthday on the white sands of the Bahamas, next to Nassau on New Providence Island.

The first MetaSystems User Day took place in Altlussheim, Germany in the last week of September 2018. Approximately 25 guests took the opportunity to learn about the benefits of Neon, RapidScore, and the latest MetaSystems FISH probes.

MetaSystems attended the 2018 International Congress of Genetics being held in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. The conference is known as one of the most important gatherings in the field of genetics in Latin America. Accordingly, the MetaSystems booth traffic was very busy. People from many Latin American countries took the opportunity to learn more about the latest MetaSystems products including Neon, Metafer, and the latest probes.

MetaSystems and MetaSystems Probes performed a workshop with exercises in classical FISH hybridization, short time hybridization, RapidScore analysis with Metafer and imaging with Isis. The workshop was done in two groups from Feb. 02 to Feb. 05 in Dubai. UAE.

MetaSystems is proud to be committed to sustainable business and to the safeguarding of social and ecological standards. As a result of this philosophy, MetaSystems recently was awarded again the seal of approval 2018 "Commitment to Sustainability" by the certification body of the German institute for Sustainability and Economy in accordance with di-no. - Procedural Regulation D-17/400780, and documented in Analysis Report No. 4017 3201 and relevant Audit Report No. 4017 3201. MetaSystems will take this award as inducement to continue with our sustainable business practices and socially responsible activities.

MetaSystems held its second workshop in the Middle East this year between the 18th and 21st of February in Dubai, UAE. This time, in addition to a system demonstration, a probes workshop was also included. Over the course of two different workshops (one on the 18th/19th, one on the 20th/21st), 29 participants from 5 countries experienced the ease and quality of MetaSystems FISH probes, software, and hardware. Participants came from Pakistan, Iran, the UAE, Oman, and Lebanon.

For the first time this year, MedLab in Dubai, the world’s largest laboratory exhibition and congress, took place separately from the ArabHealth. Being a leader in microscope based imaging, MetaSystems decided to attend this event in 2017 and to take advantage of direct contacts to regional sales representatives, partner companies, and customers. All companies of the MetaSystems family, namely MetaSystems, MetaSystems Probes, and for the first time MetaSystems Indigo were present at the booth and provided latest news on their respective products and innovations.

Our US team was recently awarded ISO 13485 certification! Here are some pictures taken during the celebration. At MetaSystems, we strive after continuously improving the quality of our service and products!

MetaSystems is very proud to announce that it has now been active and independent for 3 full decades. Back in the late nineteen-eighties, MetaSystems' began its humble but promising journey. From the seed of just one brilliant idea grew an incomparable company. Thirty years later, the company is inseparably associated with the most reliable and top-quality microscope based imaging solutions.

MetaSystems presented a fully equipped Metafer system with SlideFeeder x80 on two scientific congresses in Latin America (October 2016).