Microbiology
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Combating microplastics
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations, especially with small particles. Emerging methods such as holographic imaging and fluorescent dyes…
News
Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-methane, responsible for an estimated 14% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
In Depth
The changing diagnostic testing paradigm
Despite laboratories’ longstanding reliance upon microbial culture for infectious disease identification, the pressures of the pandemic have increased interest in the uses of alternatives, not least …
Comment And Analysis
A vision beyond gold
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to take its bacterial detection application through the first stage of clinical development. Ian Bowkett…
Interviews
It’s all just a matter of perception
In anticipation of the announcement of this year’s competition winners, we asked previous winners a bit more about themselves and the process that led to their Olympus Image of the Year light microsc…
