For World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Jessica Hayward, a Research Associate in Pharmaceutics at the University of Reading, explains about her work on a project developing miniaturised rapid antimicrobial testing.   Developing…Read More >

Smartphone multiplex microcapillary diagnostics using Cygnus: Development and evaluation of rapid serotype-specific NS1 detection with dengue patient samples   https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0010266   Accurate home testing could be used for a wider…Read More >

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem. One branch to help tackle AMR is innovation in rapid diagnostics. Currently, antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs) are too slow (approx 2 days to results)…Read More >

We have a preprint out. Here we look at our microfluidic antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST). We can run 15x more AST than the conventional format with 100% agreement   https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.446184v2…Read More >

Dr Al Edwards and Dr Partha Ray have been working along with Capillary Film Technology, Design Science and the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology in India to create an easy…Read More >

Home usability of diagnostic devices Why use home testing devices? When diagnosing a virus or a bacterial infection, or even finding out what type of antibiotic would be suitable, home…Read More >

Some of the work we do in EdwardsLab has been published on the University of Reading Alumni Magazine, Connected.   You can find out how Dr Sophie Jegouic and Dr…Read More >

Microfluidic Antimicrobial Resistance Tests At EdwardsLab we use microfluidic devices to develop rapid antimicrobial resistance tests for UTI infections. These tests use a hydrophillic microcapillary film with different capillaries coated…Read More >

Edwards lab at the University of Reading as developing rapid antibody tests to detect antibodies against Covid-19. This type of test allows detection of the coronavirus in peoples blood samples…Read More >

Have you been wondering how Covid-19 is tested for and what this these tests mean? Below is a link to an article on The Conversation written by Dr Al Edwards…Read More >