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 >
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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 >
New Paper Out! Counting bacteria in microfluidic devices
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 >
