RECENT NEWS

BIVDA is contributing to the ‘Week of Action’ (4–8 April), led by the Stick to Science alliance, in support of the campaign to finalise the UK’s formal association to the €95.5 billion (£79.8 billion) Horizon Europe programme.

Cell Guidance Systems, a specialist in the control, manipulation and monitoring of cells, and Manchester BIOGEL, a biotechnology company specialising in 3D synthetic peptide hydrogels, have announced a collaboration to launch PODS-PeptiGels.

A pathology partnership is celebrating its first anniversary with the launch of an initiative making thousands of pounds available for ground-breaking research projects.

Scientists in Norway will now benefit from a local team that will provide a single point of contact for access to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s full chromatography, mass spectrometry and trace elemental analysis portfolio.

Roche Diagnostics UK recently responded to news that pregnant women will be offered a simple blood test to detect pre-eclampsia on the NHS.

Arrayjet, a leading provider of inkjet liquid-handling solutions, has introduced Mercury, a new core range of five instruments for ultralow-volume liquid dispensing.

Randox has supplied laboratories worldwide with revolutionary diagnostic solutions for almost 40 years, providing them with the right tools to improve healthcare.

Standardisation and standardised assays are often discussed, but rarely pursued in practice. Regardless of your cellular application, Preferred Cell Systems can help you achieve the standardisation you need and have been looking for.

Beckman Coulter has announced that it will be continuing its partnership with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, moving the collaboration forwards with the installation of Beckman Coulter’s newest automated microplate system.

Menarini has used its extensive experience with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technology to provide the most complete HPLC product portfolio on the market, making Menarini the partner of choice for haemoglobin analysis.

As a consultant healthcare scientist in histopathology and Lead Healthcare Scientist for her NHS Trust, Dr Jo Horne spent the years before the onset of the pandemic seeking to raise the profile of histopathology and healthcare science.

This year’s British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) conference will take place on Tuesday 19 July 2022, at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. Read more about the BSMT and the conference in the April issue of Pathology in Practice

This year’s British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT) conference will take place on Tuesday 19 July 2022, at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. Read more about the BSMT and the conference in the April issue of Pathology in Practice

The government’s commitment to increasing the R&D budget to £39.8 billion – the largest ever – has been welcomed by BIVDA.

Over the past two years, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has pushed the healthcare system to its limits and been a catalyst for change and adaptation in the face of the invisible plague that has swept the world.

Proscia, a leader in digital and computational pathology, and Visiopharm, a world leader in AI-driven precision pathology, announced a strategic partnership to deliver integrated AI-enabled solutions to improve clinical decision-making for cancer.

INTEGRA Biosciences’ ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot is helping the Arbovirus Testing Lab0ratory at the New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories in Concord, USA, to streamline sample pooling for West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis virus testing.

Torrey Pines Scientific has announced its new line of corrosion-resistant multi-position stirring analogue hot plates and stirrers featuring five or nine stirring positions, making them ideal for acid digestions and working with corrosive solutions.

Thermo Fisher Scientific enables laboratories to meet ever-increasing efficiency and productivity needs with a collection of new gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) instruments offering hardware and software updates.

The National Pathology Imaging Cooperative (NPIC) opens opportunities for NHS trusts around the country to digitise pathology and improve patient diagnoses, following new funding and expanding the usage of Sectra’s digital pathology solution.