Rapid Micro Methods Blog

Seasons Greetings from rapidmicromethods.com

Seasons Greetings from the staff at rapidmicromethods.com and Microbiology Consultants, LLC. We hope…

byRapidMicro •December 25, 2010

Immunochromatographic strip test for detection of genus Cronobacter

This just in from the December 2010 issue of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Researchers at the Depar…

byRapidMicro •December 22, 2010

MIT Researchers Reconstruct Evolution of 3 Billion-Year-Old Microbes

Computational biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a mathema…

byRapidMicro •December 21, 2010

Micro- and nanocantilever devices and systems for biomolecule detection

I recently came across a review article on the use of micro and nanocantilevers as a rapid way of de…

byRapidMicro •December 21, 2010

DNA Sequencing Matches Cholera Strain in Haiti with Bacteria from South Asia

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachuset…

byRapidMicro •December 13, 2010

UTHealth professor to receive service award from American Society for Microbiology

Known nationally for her research into single-cell organisms that affect oral health, Millicent &quo…

byRapidMicro •December 08, 2010

A mobile phone app that detects STDs!

This just in from the UK-based newspaper, The Guardian . People will soon be able to tell if they ha…

byRapidMicro •November 28, 2010

Fung’s Double Tube Leads Way to Quicker Pathogen Detection

When government and industry were looking for a way to identify more rapidly the presence of the pat…

byRapidMicro •November 23, 2010

More Accurate Diagnostic for Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Using Nanoparticle Probes

According to a paper in the November Journal of Clinical Microbiology , a new, fully automated syste…

byRapidMicro •November 23, 2010

A New Read on DNA Sequencing

I came across a very interesting article on gene sequencing. Biophysicist Stuart Lindsay, of the Bio…

byRapidMicro •November 15, 2010

WIll FDA develop a Guidance on RMMs?

W e have a number of compendial (USP and Ph. Eur.) and technical (PDA TR#33) documents at our dispos…

byRapidMicro •November 10, 2010

Automating the Micro QC Lab (Part 4)

Over the last few months, Steve Delity, President and CEO of Rapid Micro Biosystems, has provided hi…

byRapidMicro •November 05, 2010

New Publication on Rapid Sterility Testing

In this month's American Pharmaceutical Review, Jennifer Gray and her team from Novartis describ…

byRapidMicro •November 04, 2010

USP Discussion on RMMs and recommendations for USP Chapter 1223

The final session of this year’s PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology is focused o…

byRapidMicro •October 27, 2010

Japanese PMDA Perspectives on RMMs

Following the FDA presentations, Dr. Tsuguo Sasaki, Japanese PMDA, provided his views on the use of …

byRapidMicro •October 27, 2010

FDA Perspectives on RMMs

Follo wing comment from the Australian TGA, two FDA staff members provided their perspectives on RMM…

byRapidMicro •October 27, 2010

Regulatory RMM Perspectives at the PDA Global Microbiology Conference: The Australian TGA

Yesterday, I reported on the Compendial RMM session where we heard from the chairs of the USP, Ph. E…

byRapidMicro •October 27, 2010

Pharmacopoiea Perspectives on RMMs Provided by USP, Ph. Eur. and JP Expert Committees

The Chairs of the USP, Ph. Eur. and JP provided their perspectives on the current and future state o…

byRapidMicro •October 26, 2010

Rapid Method Session 2 at the PDA Global Microbiology Conference

Sara Polson, Accugenix, discussed their use of the Bruker MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TO…

byRapidMicro •October 26, 2010

Rapid Method Session 1 at PDA Global Microbiology Conference

Jennifer Gray of Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland, presented their strategy for validating the Mill…

byRapidMicro •October 26, 2010

Dr. Ed Tidswell Discusses Viable but Non-Culturable (VBNC) Organisms

Dr. Tidswell presented an excellent overview of viable but non-culturable (VBNC) organisms and their…

byRapidMicro •October 25, 2010

FDA's Hussong Discusses Objectionable Organisms and RMMs

Dr. David Hussong, FDA CDER, reviewed the impact that B. cepacia can have on pharmaceutical product …

byRapidMicro •October 25, 2010

Opening Session at PDA Global Microbiology Conference

Opening of the PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology. Speaking is Dr. Mark Ott, Chie…

byRapidMicro •October 25, 2010

Live RMM Blog Next Week!

Remember to follow my live blog from the PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology next w…

byRapidMicro •October 22, 2010

New Pharmaceutical Microbiology Textbok Includes RMMs

Madhu Raju Saghee, Tim Sandle and Ed Tidswell have recently published a new book entitled Microbiolo…

byRapidMicro •October 18, 2010

LIVE RMM BLOGGING During the PDA Global Microbiology Conference

Rapid micro methods will be the talk of the town at the upcoming PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceut…

byRapidMicro •October 06, 2010

Three day Microbiology GMP and RMM Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 13-15

To address the microbiological needs of the global pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Quality Ac…

byRapidMicro •October 06, 2010

Participants needed for online survey on RMM return on investment

In the next few weeks I will be conducting an online survey on return on investment (ROI) and rapid …

byRapidMicro •October 03, 2010

High-throughput Universal Probe Salmonella Serotyping (UPSS) by nanoPCR

A new publication from the September 2010 Journal of Microbiological Methods discusses the use of n…

byRapidMicro •October 03, 2010