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Dr Al Edwards and Dr Sarah Needs visited the Department of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) at 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 >

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 >

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 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 >

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 >