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 >
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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 >
Preprint Alert! Microfluidic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests
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 >
Proud to Announce: We are ISO 8601 Compatible
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 >
Testing, Diagnostics and Design Research ensuring confidence and accuracy in COVID testing
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 >