RECENT NEWS
Corrosion-resistant analogue hot plates and stirrers
Torrey Pines Scientific has launched a new line of corrosion-resistant multi-position stirring analogue hot plates and stirrers with five or nine stirring positions, making them ideal for acid digestions and working with most corrosive solutions.- News
Market research on the healthcare industry
In vitro diagnostics represents a large market, with scores of significant competitors. Sorting out the marketplace can be difficult without a definitive guide.- News
Microbiology testing for the NHS and Public Health
Like many other microbiologists and the public health community, Professor Brian Duerden and colleagues are very concerned about the COVID-19 microbiology testing debacle and the consequences of the demise of Public Health England (PHE).- News
BIVDA joins key DIT Trade Advisory Group on Life Sciences
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has launched 11 new trade advisory groups (TAGs), as part of a major new business engagement drive designed to support the UK’s ambitious trade negotiations.- News
Remote monitor facilitates efficiency and regulatory compliance
Clinical laboratories can now benefit from a next-generation remote monitoring solution designed to enable superior levels of sample protection, workflow efficiencies, asset/cost optimisation and regulatory compliance.- News
Pipetting robot offers flexibility in virology research
Researchers in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago, New Zealand, are focused on understanding the mechanisms and clinical consequences of drug-resistant viruses, as well as performing antiviral drug discovery.- News
Take, Test and Treat: a free series of webinars
BD has teamed up with CloserStill Media, organisers of Health Plus Care, to present ‘Take, Test and Treat – The critical future in diagnostics and blood culture’ webinar series, taking place online on 8, 9 and 10 September.- News
SHOT Report 2019: Laboratory and information technology highlights
The SHOT team has announced its first topic-specific webinar, on the laboratory and information technology chapters of the SHOT Report 2019, to be held on 11 September at 2.00 pm BST. Click on this story for the link to register for this free event.- News
Differences in biomarkers and genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have conducted the largest study to date on a wide range of common blood biomarkers and show clear differences in people at genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease.- News
New Purite ECO water purification units cut laboratory costs
The latest range of Purite ECO water purification units, available from SUEZ Water Purification Systems, is designed to minimise the volume of water and energy used by laboratories, and can reduce operating costs by over £100 per month.- News
Facilitating high-throughput 3D cell screening workflow
Researchers are turning to INTEGRA Biosciences’ VIAFLO 96/384 handheld electronic pipette for rapid and precise filling of specialised 3D cell culture plates, to increase throughput and meet the demands of high-volume drug discovery programmes.- News
analytica 2020 extends its reach with analytica virtual
With the new format, analytica virtual, the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology also enables those exhibitors and visitors to participate who, due to travel restrictions, cannot come to Munich.- News
Invisible science
Summer of ’69 saw the first moon landing and John Stevens started work in pathology at Southampton. Ultimately, John would become an IBMS president and is currently Chair of the Academy for Healthcare Science.- News
Customised solutions for managing surgical specimens
Menarini has expanded its Surgical Specimen Management portfolio with UltraSAFE, the safe formalin dispensing solution. UltraSAFE provides total safety, standardisation and traceability without the need to change the user’s current process.- News
Cloud-first approach to enterprise-wide LIMS deployment
Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded deployment model options for SampleManager LIMS software, offering laboratories end-to-end support of the software deployment in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.- News
Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
The UK government recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a series of guidelines to keep participants safe. To guarantee that these are followed, Easyfairs, the organiser of Lab Innovations, has partnered with SGS.- News
First placement of APAS Independence in the UK
Clever Culture Systems has announced the first APAS Independence placement into a UK laboratory, at the Health Services Laboratory (HSL), a state-of-the-art facility located within the Halo building, part of London’s life sciences hub, MedCity.- News
Increasing the reproducibility of detection assays
Researchers in the Hadad Research Group, based in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University, are studying organophosphate pesticides in vitro, and are using INTEGRA’s ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot to streamline workflows.- News
Point-of-care virus testing using screen-printed electrodes
Point-of-care (POC) testing with screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) allows rapid testing of populations for viral outbreaks at affordable costs, without the need for trained specialists and/or complicated equipment.- News
Lyme disease testing: a free webinar
Dr Elizabeth Lee-Lewandrowski will discuss the findings of a seven-year study on Lyme disease testing in a webinar on Thursday 30 July 2020. This is part of an ongoing series hosted by Quidel, the California-based diagnostic healthcare manufacturer.- News
