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Bacterial disaggregation as a strategy to improve cell counting ( SL Servetas, S. Da Silva) Counting bacterial cells is challenging enough when they are single, individual cells. It can be further complicated by the various bacterial morphologies (e.g., chains, clusters, etc.), which interfere with
Current Capabilities ERF value assignment measurement service for traceable ERF value assignment to microparticles, Aseptic sorting of cell lines, and primary cells Quantitative measurements of cell surface and intracellular biomarkers by estimating antibody bound per cell Accurate enumeration of
Christian Hulzebos, Johanna Camara, Miranda van Berkel, VINCENT DELATOUR, Stanley Lo, Agnes Mailloux, Marcel Schmidt, Mercy Thomas, Lindsey Mackay, Ronda Greaves
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Urinary excretion of albumin is a major diagnostic and prognostic marker of kidney disease; therefore, accurate measurement of urine albumin is essential to
Jim Huggett, Denise O'Sullivan, Simon Cowen, Megan Cleveland, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Amanda Winter, Michael Messenger, Julian Braybrook
Diagnostic tests were heralded as crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic with most of the key methods using bioanalytical approaches. Bioanalytical techniques can
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Enumeration of bacterial colonies on an agar plate is simple in concept, but automated colony counting is difficult due to variations in colony color, size
This GitHub repository contains a downloadable snapshot of National Institute of Standards and Technology's COVID-19 Data Repository, curated from the COVID-19