May 2017

Technology

New monotest system launched

Launch Diagnostics is pleased to introduce the new VIrClia monotest system, an indirect chemiluminescent immunoassay for the detection of antibodies against infectious diseases in human serum or plasma samples.

Immunology
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One-to-one: Blood on the production line

Jan Frayne, a Reader in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol, discusses her cutting-edge work in manufacturing red blood cells.

Haematology & Transfusion Science
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Under the microscope: Induced pluripotent stem cells

What are they?

Molecular Pathology & Genomics
Resources

How to... make the most of university

Final-year biomedical science student at De Montfort University, James Cooper, provides an insight for prospective and current biomedical science students on how to maximise opportunities at university.

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Journal-based learning exercises May 2017

Journal-based learning exercises for May 2017.  You may complete as many JBL exercises as you wish and you are not restricted by specialty.

Cytopathology, Haematology & Transfusion Science
Science

My lab: in the City of Culture

Dr Chris Chase, Pathology Training Manager, celebrates the Pathology Lab at Hull Royal Infirmary’s part in welcoming everyone to the City of Culture.

Resources

Here to help: Career pathways and qualifications after registration

Jocelyn Pryce, IBMS Head of Registration and Training, looks at career pathways and qualifications after registration.

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Post-grad soc affiliates with IBMS

Nottingham Trent University’s Postgraduate Biosciences Society has joined the IBMS.

Science

Histopathology reporting: IBMS and RCPath statement

The IBMS and Royal College of Pathologists have come together to produce “The Role of Biomedical Scientists in Histopathology Reporting: A Joint Statement from the Royal College of Pathologists and Institute of Biomedical Science”. 

Histopathology
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Acute gastritis and the Nobel prize

In late July 1984, Dr Barry J Marshall drank an unusual concoction that would forever change his life, the lives of countless others and our understanding of medicine. The 32-year-old Microbiology Registrar from Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia, consumed beef broth laced with 109 colony-forming units of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). 

Microbiology & Virology
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Medical facilities on cruise ships

What you can expect if you get ill on a cruise? John Bagshaw takes to the sea to find out.

Microbiology & Virology
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