February 2018

Science

My lab: rare and imported pathogens

Laboratory Manager Barry Gibney gives a guided tour of his Public Health England laboratory at Porton Down.

Resources

IBMS certificate of competence by equivalence

Alan Wainwright of the IBMS on the equivalence route through which practitioners can apply for HCPC registration as biomedical scientists.

Resources

February 2018 Journal-based learning

Below is a link to the journal-based learning (JBL) exercises for February 2018. You may complete as many JBL exercises as you wish and you are not restricted by specialty.

News

IBMS strategy published

After consultation with its members, the IBMS has announced its new corporate strategy for 2018 to 2020.

News

Scholarship now open for entries

IBMS members are being encouraged to apply for the Carol Briggs-Smalley Scholarship.

Haematology & Transfusion Science

Resources

Reviewing CPD activity

Christian Burt from the IBMS gives an overview of the annual CPD review for Chartered Scientist Registrants.

Resources

How to… confront inequality for women in science

Why do so few women make it to the top in science? Valerie Bevan, author and Chair of the British Society for Microbial Technology, looks at the issues.

Technology

Reliance Precision Limited has been working in partnership with Greiner Bio-One on developing CELLswing – an automated manipulator, which gently moves and rotates a CELLdisc containing adherent mammalian cells in any required position.

Microbiology & Virology

News

February 2018

My lab: rare and imported pathogens

IBMS certificate of competence by equivalence

February 2018 Journal-based learning

IBMS strategy published

Scholarship now open for entries

Reviewing CPD activity

How to… confront inequality for women in science

Mass cell culture automation

Gaming disorder: under the microscope

£3.7m of undisclosed CCG payments

Pfizer ends alzheimer's research