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Listing of all 24 news releases from BD Biosciences:
25 Years of manufacturing excellence in Plymouth
The Plymouth plant is one of the premier evacuated tube and needle production facilities in the world, making BD Vacutainer blood collection products for markets across Europe and around the world.
News from BD Biosciences (19 July 2006)
Safer way to collect blood
Needlestick injuries account for six out of every seven occupational-related disease transmissions and are responsible for the deaths of four UK nurses infected with HIV
News from BD Biosciences (22 July 2004)
Needlestick injuries: even one is too many
Blood collection set gives healthcare and laboratory workers safer choice for sampling difficult veins and collecting blood cultures
News from BD Biosciences (21 July 2004)
Efforts to reduce needlestick injuries across UK
Safer Needles Network campaigns to stop 100,000 needlestick injuries to healthcare workers every year, supported by Unison, RCN and BMA
News from BD Biosciences (30 March 2004)
Hitting the bottle
Just when you thought you understood how a bottle works, someone comes along and designs a better one
News from BD Biosciences ( 3 October 2003)
New system for cell-based assays
High throughput platform for chemotaxis, migration and invasion assays has a universal 96-well format that is compatible with most commercial detectors, fluid handling and robotic handling instruments
News from BD Biosciences (24 June 2003)
Protein purification made easier at Imperial
User application article Kit helping to save time isolating and purifying proteins on project to develope protein microarrays for small molecule detection
News from BD Biosciences (16 June 2003)
Aiding drug discovery
User application article Scientists at AstraZeneca chose Poly-D-Lysine plates for growing many of the cell lines used in their high throughput screening assays
News from BD Biosciences (11 June 2003)
Studying the life span of neutrophils
User application article Researchers at Sheffield are investigating pro-inflammatory cytokin gene expression using an RNase protection assay to study the life span of neutrophils at the site of inflammation
News from BD Biosciences (26 March 2003)
Corneal gene expression in the spotlight
User application article The mystery of why some corneal transplants are rejected is being tackled by the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Manchester
News from BD Biosciences ( 6 March 2003)
Assay could help eliminate invasive eye biopsies
Overcomes difficulties in monitoring tiny quantities of analytes from tears to assess efficacy of eye treatments
News from BD Biosciences ( 3 March 2003)
Tick saliva may hold key to autoimmune treatments
User application article Group has been working with parasitologists to identify some of the novel immunosuppressive substances in the saliva, particularly those that suppress lymphocytes
News from BD Biosciences (28 January 2003)
Wellcome evaluates antibody microarrays
User application article The Genomics and Genotyping Core Facility at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford has been testing the BD Smart Atlas Powerscript labelling kit to help improve its microarray service
News from BD Biosciences (16 January 2003)
DNA Polymerase works well for Wellcome
User application article The Genomics and Genotyping Core Facility at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford has been evaluating the efficiency of BD Titanium TAQ DNA Polymerase
News from BD Biosciences (15 January 2003)
Quality controlled in bone marrow transplants
User application article The Haematology department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, uses a BD FACScan System to check the quality of bone marrow for transplants.
News from BD Biosciences (25 December 2002)
Tissue culture plastics are the labware of choice
User application article For over a decade, researchers in the Nephrology Department at the University of Wales College of Medicine have relied exclusively on one brand of plastic labware
News from BD Biosciences (19 November 2002)
Reagent kits used for HIV vaccine trials
User application article Imperial College has recently started HIV vaccine trials as part of the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and is using reagent kits to analyse immune status
News from BD Biosciences (18 November 2002)
Array used in cancer progression study
User application article Research group in Manchester has been using human cancer arrays for a pilot study identifying genes involved in the progression of cervical carcinoma
News from BD Biosciences (14 November 2002)
Reagents speed up leukaemia diagnosis
User application article "The reagents that are used to diagnose haematological malignancies have undergone vast improvements in the last couple of years"
News from BD Biosciences (13 November 2002)
Response of cell isolates to air pollution
User application article Cardiff pollution research group looks at genetic response of specific lung cells to diesel exhaust particles, using nylon macro arays
News from BD Biosciences (29 October 2002)
Plastic microarray kits used in Heart Research
Endorsement for cellware from major customer
Leukaemia classification gets tighter in Leeds
Freeing cell sorters from cell analysis
