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Beyond the lateral flow device and reader
Commercially, the lateral flow device was launched in 1984 as a simple-based pregnancy test for home use. Now, it is becoming popular because of the recent unstoppable trend towards portable and wearable technology. This new movement drives the lateral flow strip...
What is the cytological staining procedure and how it’s performed?
Cytology is the microscopic examination of cells obtained from the body by aspiration or scraping for diagnostic purposes, such as cancer of the uterine cervix. The main advantage of this test is that the collection of cytological specimens does not require...
Lateral flow reader: application fields and features
Lateral flow immunoassay technology is evolving rapidly. With a lateral flow reader, it is possible to detect colloidal gold or colored monodisperse latex particles, using charged coupled device cameras and fluorescent monodisperse latex particles bases on LED...
The importance of automatize the immunohistochemistry
Immunohistochemistry is an immunostaining application, microscope-based technique that uses an antibody to view a specific protein in biological tissue. One of the main uses of this technique is the determination of tissue distribution of an antigen of interest in...
Environmental air sampling to detect cultivable bacteria and fungi in the pharmacy
Microbial air contamination monitoring is a key process in facilities with special air cleanliness needs such as pharmaceutical, food, or cosmetic industries. 14698-1 normative establishes that environmental air sampling should be carried out considering the situation...
Automatic colony counter for laboratories
An automatic colony counter allows any modern microbiology laboratories to perform the colony counting simply and reliably. This leads to standardized, accurate results for both whole plate and sector counts. However, those Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated...
Spiral plating, streamline the plate inoculations
Spiral Plating is a U.S Official Method (Journal of the AOAC, 60 1977, Methods) recognized by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC). Thanks to the spiral method, a known volume of sample is inoculated, from the center to the periphery of the plate....
IUL’s iPeak enhances the colors of your rapid test
iPeak® is your colorimetric rapid test reader that enhances the colors of your test. Besides this, iPeak® is equipped with the Flash Eye technology that makes each iPeak® reproducible and repetitive. You can export and print the results, and also send the results in...
Serial dilution, a nightmare for the microbiologists
Currently, there are different techniques to plate and each one of them has a specific use and properties and some prior procedures such as serial dilution are required. So, although we have different ways of plating or monitoring microbial growth in culture, four of...
Rapid plating with IUL’s spiral plate method
The Spiral Plater is a two-in-one method: diluter and plater at the same time, one of the most time- and waste volume- saving methods of inoculation, that is why more and more microbiological laboratories are using Spiral Plater for bacterial determination. The Spiral...
IUL’S air sampler: accuracy, precision and resolution to analyze air quality
The concern about indoor air quality has grown, not only in air-controlled environments such as pharmaceutical manufacturing areas, hospitals or food processing facilities but also in homes and workplaces. Deteriorated indoor air quality may cause adverse effects such...
IUL celebrates 30 years of the launch of the first gravimetric dilutor!
IUL Instruments commemorates the 30th anniversary of the design, manufacturing and marketing of the first gravimetric dilutor. It was launched in 1990 under the name “Dosi Dilutor”, receiving its name from its ability to dose and highlighting the precision and...