Dr Al Edwards and Dr Sarah Needs are presenting their research at the I Asturias International Meeting on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AIMID) 2022 in Oviedo, Spain. Oviedo, 21st…Read More >

Our article “UTIs are still diagnosed using a 140-year-old method – here’s why” by Alexander Edwards and Sarah Needs has been published on The Conversation. Check out the web link…Read More >

Dr Al Edwards and Dr Sarah Needs visited the Department of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) in Oviedo, Spain to work with clinical microbiology labs. Sarah Needs, at…Read More >

Using 3D technologies in healthcare is dramatically increasing since its first development. Whilst, there are many advantages,  and applications for microbiology, their use in bacterial antibiotic resistance is still rare….Read More >

Incubation at the right temperature is a crucial step to performing the microbiological test. Therefore, the incubator is an essential type of equipment in most microbiology laboratories. In reality, tests…Read More >

Open-source hardware and software are becoming more and more common. We have built an open-source robotic system. We call it the Imaging Rig. It has been designed to measure platelet…Read More >

We have developed a darkfield imaging system that can be used to count individual bacteria concentrations in 1-dimensional microfluidic assays rather than 2D agar surface. We show that bacteria enumeration…Read More >

We have been looking for a date format that is internationally understood. We finally decided to use the date that compatible with ISO 8601. And finally, we end the debate…Read More >

A project named “Information design for diagnostics”, was initiated by a multidisciplinary team, of which Prof Sue Walker, Dr Al Edwards, Julie Hart, Dr Josefina Bravo, Dr Sarah Needs, Gemma…Read More >

We have published a new paper! In this work we look at counting bacteria by segregating them into 1 -2 microlitre compartments and using a simple colour change to measure…Read More >