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Measure Nothing to Measure Something...
December 15th, 2016
…my former boss used to say to me. Not sure whether he was intentionally trying to confuse, but it took a while and several rounds of explanation for me to finally get his point. He referred specifically to work on developing new high-throughput methods for measuring cell behaviour. Not an easy task but something he and colleagues had proven highly successful at.
View articleBeware the Specification Trap
November 3rd, 2016
Comparing the specifications of things is a powerful approach to help us to decide what to buy. Bigger, smaller, faster, simpler – if you have the spec data at your fingertips decision making is easy, right? Well, only if the data is objective and trustworthy, and only if you know exactly what parameters are important to you and how to weight them. And how do you score more subjective things like usability and aesthetics? Obvious points I know, but there’s more to this than meets the eye…
View articleVideo: Continous live-cell analysis at Sygnature Discovery
July 7th, 2016
In July 2015, Sygnature and Essen BioScience Ltd., a world leader in the field of cell-based in vitro assays and instrumentation, announced that they had established a strategic alliance to incorporate Essen’s unique phenotypic assay, live-cell imaging and ion channel technologies into Sygnature’s integrated drug discovery projects.
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