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Testing times: the birth of the pregnancy test
To mark IBMS History Week, Matt Wilven, IBMS Communications Officer, traces the history of the pregnancy test and looks at the ever broadening market of home testing.
New genomics centre to open
Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca have announced that they are opening a new centre in the UK, dedicated to realising the full potential of functional genomics in the discovery and development of new drugs for patients with cancer.
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How to… maintain accreditation
Ben Courtney, UKAS Accreditation Manager, and Delia Geary, UKAS Technical Manager, give practical guidance for compliance with ISO 15189:2012 and maintaining accreditation.
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Your chance to shape the future of the IBMS
The IBMS prides itself on being a professional body that is run by its members for its members.
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President’s prizes
Continuing the coverage of winners from around the country.
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Incident.Response.Outcome.
Dervilla Gorman and Naomi DeJager describe their roles as bronze commanders at Viapath Analytics and discuss their responses to incidents that have affected pathology services.
Health and herbs in the Dark Ages
Stephen Mortlock casts on eye to the past and documents the agrarian, tribal existence that followed the fall of the Roman empire.
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Jackie Longbone, Deputy Head of Service for Microbiology and Infection at Frontier Pathology, explains the benefits of welcoming overseas PhD students.
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British Journal of Biomedical Science, Issue 1 2019 – synopsis
Editor Andrew Blann outlines the content of the latest issue, which opens with a synopsis of all the articles published in 2018, with the subtitle “What have we learned?” This review-type article is the subject of a JBL exercise. Notably, six of the eight published articles involve methods in molecular genetics.
