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Before the availability of antibiotics, infection was a major cause of morbidity for which there were few effective treatments. Consequently, mortality due to infection was high. 

Recently we were talking about cell death assays. However, these are closely related to testing the opposite: living cells. The acquisition of cell viability is probably the task microplate readers need to assume most frequently. In this blog article you will learn why it is so popular and how to measure it.

In our latest webinar, speaker Dr. Gene Ananiev from the Small Molecule Screening Facility at the University of Wisconsin Madison, discusses two examples of high-throughput screening in 1536-well plates, presenting methodology for assay miniaturisation and optimisation.

With the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting only weeks away, we at BMG LABTECH thought it was an opportune time to discuss some of the prion papers that have been published recently, which use our microplate readers to further research in neurobiology. If you want to find out all the ways that BMG LABTECH products can be used in neuroscience applications, please visit us at booth #3324.

By now you have probably heard that this years Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared by James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their independent breakthroughs in the field of immunotherapy for the treatment of cancers.

The conference is a 2 day event highlighting the latest trends in drug discovery research with presentations from big names across academia and commercial companies.