UAE – TopAir Systems, a manufacturing and provider of innovative clean air solutions based on the latest technology, has showcased its Biological Safety Cabinet featuring the world’s first integrated particle monitoring system. The Biological Safety Cabinet ensures real-time safety alerts for laboratory environments. This breakthrough allows lab professionals to monitor particle concentration continuously. It provides a 24/7 cleanliness status without the need for external certification services or expensive particle counters. The system includes a red-light alarm that signals contamination a ..read more

UGANDA – The National Health Laboratories and Diagnostic Services in Uganda has set up a mobile lab equipped with portable biosafety equipment to quickly respond to outbreaks, identify dangerous pathogens like COVID-19, Ebola, and Marburg virus, and test for them safely. Laboratories are centres for discovery and experimentation, and for identifying and quickly responding to emerging health threats before they spread. They are also an essential part of resilient, strong health systems that can evolve and adapt as the world changes. The Global Fund has invested US $36 million in Uganda’s labor ..read more

KENYA – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has enhanced the laboratory technicians’ skills in managing and transporting biological specimens, an essential component in effective disease surveillance and outbreak response. For six days, 24 laboratory specialists from 11 African countries convened in Kenya for an intensive training session in sample management. The lab technicians were drawn from the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and São Tomé and Principe. They immersed themselves in the intricacies ..read more

GLOBAL – A team of scientists from UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and Yale School of Medicine has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. Given widespread resistance to commonly used antimalarials, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) remain one of the most applicable first-line treatments for drug-resistant malaria. However, recent reports have revealed growing global resistance to ACT partner drugs and clinical treatment failures. The researchers from the three universities have found a drug, called MED6-189, inhibited both drug-sensitive and drug-res ..read more

UK – Sphere Fluidics, a Cambridge-based Life Sciences R&D company, plans to launch the Cyto-Mine® Chroma in early 2025, a revolutionary update to its successful single-cell analysis and isolation platform, Cyto-Mine. The new Chroma system delivers unmatched efficiency with its enhanced multiplexing capabilities and high throughput. Cyto-Mine Chroma builds on the original Cyto-Mine platform’s ability to leverage picodroplet technology to encapsulate single cells, assess cellular function, and isolate target cells for downstream expansion or analysis. The new Chroma system maintains Cyto-Mi ..read more

ONGO – Russian mobile laboratories already in use in Uganda and Burundi would be supplied to the Republic of Congo and Ethiopia. This was disclosed at the Third International Training exercise for mobile rapid response laboratories held in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod city. According to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tatiana Golikova, the purpose of the International training exercise for mobile rapid response laboratories is to exchange experience and practice skills in responding to health and epidemiological emergencies. Experts from 30 countries of the CIS, Africa, Asia, Europe and South Ame ..read more

GERMANY – Dutch researchers from Delft University of Technology and Utrecht University have developed the first-ever method to monitor infections in plants in real-time, without the need to destroy them. Delft scientists investigated downy mildew infections in lettuce, a plant species where such infections are typically only visible in their later stages. Plant scientists often don’t know how an infection progresses within a plant and what makes certain crops insensitive to pathogens. “Until now, researchers had to kill a plant for each step in the process, stain it, and then examine it under ..read more

UK – DD-Scientific, a global leader in gas sensor technology, has launched its new PPB Air Quality Sensor range at the Air Quality & Emissions (AQE) Show. The new range takes advantage of DD-Scientific’s automated manufacturing expertise to set new benchmarks in accuracy, reliability and value for the precise detection of environmental pollutants at extremely low concentrations. Developed to meet increasing demand for high-accuracy air quality monitoring across a range of applications, DD-Scientific believe this new offering will fast become the first choice for manufacturers of urban, in ..read more

NIGERIA – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says Nuclear-derived techniques are helping scientist move closer to eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), safeguarding animal lives but also protecting farmers’ livelihoods. First described in 1942, peste des petits ruminant (PPR) is considered one of the most highly contagious livestock diseases in Africa, Near East and Asia. Traditional systems, where animals share watering holes and pastures, elevate the risk of virus transmission and perpetuate the spread through entire regions, causing a morbidity rate of up to 10 ..read more

UAE – TopAir Systems, a manufacturing and provider of innovative clean air solutions based on the latest technology, has showcased its Biological Safety Cabinet featuring the world’s first integrated particle monitoring system. The Biological Safety Cabinet ensures real-time safety alerts for laboratory environments. This breakthrough allows lab professionals to monitor particle concentration continuously. It provides a 24/7 cleanliness status without the need for external certification services or expensive particle counters. The system includes a red-light alarm that signals contamination a ..read more