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Just how close is ICT to the frontline these days?

Posted by: Michael Brodie, Posted on: 20 August 2014 - Categories: Developing our own capacity and capability, Microbiology services, Public health data

...rate at which our medical microbiology is modernising. Of course, these days our Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is at the very heart of everything that we do. This may...

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Proteomics: studying proteins to fight disease

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 17 March 2014 - Categories: Antimicrobial resistance, Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...of the proteome. In PHE, one of the ways that we analyse bacterial proteins is using mass spectrometry (MS) technology. This has helped our scientists to understand more about which...

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A revolution in genomic sequencing

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 20 January 2014 - Categories: Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...or detection of nucleic acid, particularly for the microorganisms that we cannot culture using traditional techniques. Analysing all the complex biological data we are now able to produce often involves...

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How does a public health agency contribute to economic growth?

Posted by: Michael Brodie, Posted on: 18 December 2013 - Categories: Developing our own capacity and capability

...if they had to build these capabilities from scratch. In the life sciences sector, quality assurance is critically important. By offering our testing and quality assurance capabilities to industry (for...

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Driving forward infectious disease genomics

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 9 December 2013 - Categories: Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...bioinformatic capabilities to manage, store and share this data and to link them effectively to clinical and epidemiological datasets. We also have to accept that this is a rapidly moving...

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