Diagnostics and monitoring | London Centre for Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology to leverage infections and antibiotic sensing

by Owen Harrison | Aug 3, 2015 | News, Research Highight

“Miniaturized diagnostic tests can revolutionize the speed of diagnosing infectious diseases and hereditary ones such as haemophilia,” said Dr Joseph Ndieyira of UCL, senior author of a paper that has just been published in Nature Nanotechnology. Infections caused by...

LCN academic wins 2015 UCL Enterprise Award

by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 23, 2015 | News

LCN academic, Professor Rachel McKendry, was awarded the UCL Provost Spirit of Enterprise Award at this year’s eighth annual UCL Awards for Enterprise. Winners of the eighth annual UCL Awards for Enterprise were announced on Wednesday 10 June, at a ceremony held at...

Non-protein nucleating agent specifically designed for automated protein crystallization trials

by Owen Harrison | Mar 10, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight

Scientists at Imperial College London are developing new nano-materials and technologies that include high-throughput methods for producing protein crystals that are pivotal to the structural determination of biological molecules at atomic resolution. These underpin...

UCL and i-sense collaborate with Google to track flu outbreaks

by Eamonn Boylan | Jan 15, 2015 | News

UCL and i-sense have joined forces with Google to contribute to the earlier global detection of influenza outbreaks. Each year, seasonal influenza affects many thousands of people in the UK and millions worldwide, producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a...