Hycor Biomedical

HYCOR Biomedical
Company type
Headquarters
IndustryAllergy Testing Diagnostics
Founded1981
Headquarters
Garden Grove, CA
Area served
Worldwide
Websitehttps://www.hycorbiomedical.com/

HYCOR Biomedical is an American corporation specializing in the manufacture and supply of in vitro diagnostic products for blood testing for allergies. The company is headquartered in Garden Grove, California, with offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The company was acquired by Linden Capital Partners in early 2010.[1]

Products and services

HYCOR Biomedical mainly produces tests and equipment relating to Allergy.[2]

Current equipment released by HYCOR includes the fully-automated NOVEOS Immunoanalyzer that uses only 4 microliters of sample per test, paramagnetic microparticles as a solid phase, chemiluminescence and fluorescence methodology for high sensitivity, and liquid ready-to-use reagents.

The HYTEC 288 Plus EIA system continues to serve laboratories around the world. The NOVEOS system is the first BIG change in routine allergy testing in over 20 years, helping reduce interference issues and the amount of sample needed to perform testing.

Currently[when?], HYCOR Biomedical has an estimated 5% market share[3] in allergy testing, second to Thermo Fisher Scientific's ImmunoCAP and Phadia instrumentation.

Allergy testing

The more common method for allergy testing, called skin prick testing, relies on examining a patient's reaction to the exposed allergen,[4] and in some cases, invokes large systemic reactions.[5] With a growing need for testing younger patients[6] without putting them at risk, in vitro testing has become an increasingly more viable alternative.

References

  1. ^ "Linden Acquires Hycor Biomedical Business from Agilent Technologies". www.investor.agilent.com. Retrieved 2026-05-20.
  2. ^ "Products - HYCOR Biomedical". www.hycorbiomedical.com/.
  3. ^ [1] Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Find the Source of Allergies". WebMD.
  5. ^ Liccardi, G.; D'Amato, G.; Canonica, G. Walter; Salzillo, A.; Piccolo, A.; Passalacqua, G. (2006). "Systemic reactions from skin testing: literature review". Journal of Investigational Allergology & Clinical Immunology. 16 (2): 75–78. ISSN 1018-9068. PMID 16689179.
  6. ^ Burks, Wesley (April 1, 2003). "Peanut allergy: a growing phenomenon". The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 111 (7): 950–952. doi:10.1172/JCI18233. PMC 152593. PMID 12671042.


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