Gold Star for Service

Calprotectin ELISA

Successful laboratory assays are usually dependent on the alignment of many elements and sometimes things do go wrong despite everyones best efforts! Nik Hawes and Julia Bond from the Biochemistry Department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton recently encountered a problem with EK-CAL, their Calprotectin ELISA, when run on the DS2 ELISA processor.…

Royal Berks takes a Quantum Leap

Quantum Blue

In autumn 2010, the Clinical Chemistry Dept at the Royal Berkshire Hospital decided to evaluate the Quantum Blue Calprotectin test. The reason was that their Calprotectin requests had grown sufficiently to warrant bringing the test in-house. Dr Tracey Staughton, Clinical Scientist, was responsible for the evaluation of the Quantum Blue system and her lab’s experience…