RECENT 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
Tumour characterisation research using multiplex immunofluorescence
Ultivue has announced a collaborative partnership with OracleBio to help further insights and advance personalised tumour characterisation in translational and clinical oncology research using multiplex immunofluorescence staining and imaging.- News
Lab Innovations 2020: an update
Following the recent government announcement permitting exhibitions to run in England from 1 October 2020, organisers of the Lab Innovations event have confirmed that it will run on 4–5 November at the NEC.- News
Connectivity and instrument monitoring
Pathology in Practice continues to reflect on SARS-CoV-2 infection and on COVID-19 disease, although understandably the focus may change slightly from issue to issue.- News
Method comparison studies in biomedical science
Following the success of article series on measurement uncertainty and internal quality control, Stephen MacDonald is now turning his attention to method comparison, starting in the August issue of Pathology in Practice.- News
Digital blood cell morphology QC, training and evaluation tool
HORIBA UK, Medical has launched an affordable digital tool for online skill evaluation and training in cytology. The Quality Slide Program (QSP) 2.0 draws on the wealth of haematology expertise held within HORIBA Medical globally.- News
My Qualiris QC: opening up a diagnostic challenge
Stago UK is offering UK laboratories a free trial of its widely respected Diagnostic Challenge, part of the company’s international external quality assurance (EQA) programme, My Qualiris QC.- News
Liquid aspiration in biosafety cabinets
The BioChem-VacuuCenter (BVC) fluid aspiration systems are the perfect solution for safe, sensitive and efficient aspiration of cell culture supernatants.- News
New haemophilia B data presented at ISTH 2020 meeting
Freeline, a clinical stage adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy company, has announced new data on its AAV gene therapy product candidate, FLT180a, in severe haemophilia B patients.- News
Bioremediation and quantum modelling techniques
Researchers are designing microorganisms to help break down pollutants and toxins like aflatoxins that contaminate food crops and pose a serious health threat to humans and livestock.- News
Cas9 and dCas9-VPR stable cell lines in CRISPR gene editing workflows
Horizon Discovery Group, a leader in gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, has introduced its stably expressing Cas9 and dCas9-VPR cell lines to help accelerate gene knockout and gene activation experiments, respectively.- News
Recent economic announcements: a response from BIVDA
Doris-Ann Williams, Chief Executive of the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA), has commented on the economic announcements in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Summer Economic Update.- News
LGC acquires The Native Antigen Company
LGC has acquired The Native Antigen Company (NAC), one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-quality infectious disease antigens and antibodies, and a developer, manufacturer and supplier of reagents to the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) sector.- News
Expression of interest in a new national microbiology framework sought
Public Health England (PHE) is asking for expressions of interest from suppliers that provide diagnostics, research and development, manufacturing of supplies and services, and provision of testing capacity for a new national microbiology framework.- News
