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 >
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AIMID Clinical Microbiology Meeting 2022, Oviedo, Spain
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 >
New article: UTIs are still diagnosed using a 140-year-old method – here’s why
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 >
Visiting HUCA, Oviedo
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 >
New paper: Methods for rapid prototyping novel labware: using CAD and desktop 3D printing in the microbiology laboratory
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 >
New Paper: Smartphone multiplex microcapillary diagnostics using Cygnus: Development and evaluation of rapid serotype-specific NS1 detection with dengue patient samples
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 >
New paper: Direct microfluidic antibiotic resistance testing in urine
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 >
New Paper Out! MicroMI: a Portable Microbiological Mobile Incubator
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 >
The Imaging Rig: Open-Source Microfluidic Blood Test
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 >
1D individual bacteria counting
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 >
