Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis: the end of the guessing game?

Blog - There are currently around 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, and the number of people affected is expected to reach 2 million by 2051. The costs associated with dementia, estimated now at £26 billion a year, are likely to treble.

10 May 2018
NHS England announces winners for Knowledge Transfer Partnership 2018

News - NHS England has announced the winners of the 2018 Chief Scientific Officer’s (CSO) Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme – a bespoke 12 month development programme that aims to improve patient care and identify new approaches to measurement and outcomes.

06 September 2018
The NML publishes first digital PCR reference method for quantifying a clinically relevant genetic change

News - Method is unique in molecular genetic measurement as it is traceable to the International System of Units.

22 August 2018
NML joins NHS England in Knowledge Transfer Partnership for leaders in healthcare science

News - KTP enables healthcare scientists to remain in clinical service whilst exchanging skills and expertise with NMS experts

14 March 2018
Science for a safer world

Blog - From our origins testing tobacco, alcohol and food products for adulteration in the 19thcentury, LGC has built a commitment to using science for a safer world.

12 February 2018
Finding harmony in newborn blood spot screening

Blog - We have partnered with Dr Rachel Carling and the NHS England as part of the CSO’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), a programme that teams up leaders in healthcare with the UK National Measurement System’s labs to solve measurement challenges in their fields.

26 February 2018
The importance of iodine - are you drinking enough milk?

Blog - In pregnant women and infants iodine is of particular importance as it plays a critical role in brain development. The primary sources of iodine for most people are milk and dairy products but due to increases in dairy intolerance and changes in diet, milk-products are being increasingly substituted for non-milk alternatives.

20 March 2018
World Immunization Week 2018: Why and how #VaccinesWork

Blog - Vaccines are a relatively modern tool, with the world's fist successful vaccine being developed in 1976 for smallpox.  Numbers show that when vaccinations steadily increase, rates of death from diseases like measles and polio were vastly reduced.

26 April 2018
Revolutionising cancer treatment one Array at a time

Blog - Pharmacogenetics, or the study of how people respond differently to medicines due to their genetics, is making a splash lately thanks to companies like Minneapolis, MN-based OneOme, which co-developed its RightMed test with Mayo Clinic

11 July 2018
National Measurement Laboratory team awarded £2.25m ISCF funding

News - Money will support the manufacture of future medicines through better measurement

08 January 2018