Lyme – a challenging disease to diagnose
Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by Borrelia bacteria transmitted by tick bites from ticks of the Ixodes genus. Particularly if untreated,...
Meet us at Medica
Our Managing Director, James Steggles, will be attending the Medica conference in Dusseldorf on November 18th, 19th and 20th. We'd love to discuss...
HAMA-Time! – How Human Anti-Mouse Antibodies (HAMA) can affect your immunoassay
What is HAMA? HAMA is an acronym for Human Anti-Mouse Antibodies. Some humans produce HAMA and have it present in their blood. Unfortunately for...
Toxoplasma IgM – not a smoking gun for acute infection
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite present in a third of the world’s human population. People acquire this infection in three ways: i)...
James interviewed by Sona Nanotech at AACC
Our Managing Director James Steggles took time out at the recent AACC conference to join up with Sona Nanotech (experts in colloidal gold...
Chagas positive plasma added to range
Logical Biological has added Chagas antibody positive plasma to its range having received clearance from the UK government Health & Safety Executive to handle human...
Irregular Blood Group Antibodies – What Are They?
Irregular antibodies are antibodies found in the blood of transfusion donors that have the potential to cause hemolysis of the recipient blood. Screening...
Fertility drugs & IVD fertility testing
All over the planet, women are getting pregnant, over 200 million of them each year. Most of these pregnancies are unintended1. This means two things:...
HIV – a challenging disease to diagnose
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has a reputation for being difficult to treat, although advances in medicine have reached a level where those being...