Last week, 3 of our colleagues packed a fully functioning laboratory into a set of flight cases and boarded a plane to one of the most remote islands on Earth. Saint Helena, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic …
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
