Rapid Micro Methods Blog

UEA Research Could Revolutionise Genomic Sequencing of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

New nanopore DNA sequencing technology on a device the size of a USB stick could be used to diagnose…

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2014

World's Earliest Diagnostic Test for Ebola, Within 24 Hours of Infection

Marking a critical turning point in the fight against Ebola, a new Rapid Ebola Pre-Symptom Screening…

byRapidMicro •December 02, 2014

WHO: Rapid, Sensitive, Safe and Simple Ebola Diagnostic Tests Urgently Needed

The goal of interrupting chains of Ebola virus transmission depends heavily on laboratory support. T…

byRapidMicro •November 18, 2014

The Next Generation Rapid Ebola Diagnostic Tests

Responsible for almost 5000 deaths, the Ebola epidemic has ravaged West Africa and acted as a cataly…

byRapidMicro •November 11, 2014

Researchers Continue to Seek a Fast, Finger-Prick Ebola Test

Searching for a new way to attack Ebola, companies and academic researchers are now racing to develo…

byRapidMicro •November 10, 2014

Synthetic Gene Networks Printed on Paper for Rapid and Inexpensive Detection of Ebola

In their new paper in the  journal Cell , Keith Pardee, James J. Collins and colleagues from C…

byRapidMicro •October 31, 2014

Novel Biosensor Technology Could Allow Rapid Detection of Ebola Virus

In 2010, Ahmet Ali Yanik published his first paper on the rapid detection of Ebola virus using new…

byRapidMicro •October 28, 2014

FDA Guidelines Restrict Use of Ebola Scanning Device at Hospitals

It took two days for the US Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of State Health…

byRapidMicro •October 24, 2014

US Federal Government Sits on a Rapid Ebola Test While the Private Sector Ramps Up Its Efforts

Researchers at a government lab have developed a minimally invasive test for Ebola that could cut …

byRapidMicro •October 19, 2014

This New Ebola Test Is As Easy As a Pregnancy Test, So Why Aren’t We Using It?

The best weapon against the outbreak may be one we’re not using: Scientists at Tulane University a…

byRapidMicro •October 10, 2014

Detecting Ebola with Nanotechnology

By late January, 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone could be infected with the Ebola v…

byRapidMicro •October 01, 2014

Ph. Eur. Revises Bacterial Endotoxin Chapter - Adds Recombinant Factor C as an Alternative Method

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare  (EDQM) has recently propos…

byRapidMicro •September 30, 2014

Presenting Our Latest Rapid Methods Webinar Series

In response to the positive feedback received from last year's rapid microbiological methods w…

byRapidMicro •September 28, 2014

ASM Statement on National Strategy to Combat Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) congratulates the Administration for its September 18 …

byRapidMicro •September 24, 2014

FDA Food Safety Challenge to Spur New Technologies for Fighting Foodborne Illness

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find di…

byRapidMicro •September 24, 2014

RT-PCR Used to Detect MERS Coronavirus in the Air of a Saudi Arabian Camel Barn

Saudi Arabian researchers have detected genetic fragments of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coro…

byRapidMicro •July 24, 2014

Nanopore Technique Rapidly Decodes Long DNA Strands

A low-cost technology may make it possible to read long sequences of DNA far more quickly than cur…

byRapidMicro •July 07, 2014

USP 1223 Now Available for Public Review and Comment

The USP Expert Microbiology Committee has recently published it's draft of USP 1223,  Validati…

byRapidMicro •July 02, 2014