Posted by dapo on Jun 28, 2009 in
CPD,
Chemistry,
Good sites I have finally got some time to write a review for the Vitamin D podcast from Clinical Chemistry.
The interview isn’t too long and does not go into great technical depth but is a great listen and I certainly learned a few things from listening to it. I knew that there are two different sources of vitamin D, diet and production by the body due to exposure to sunlight. I didn’t realise that animal and sunlight derived vitamin D is Vitamin D3 and invertebrate and plant derived vitamin d is Vitamin D2.
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Tags: Clinical Chemistry, Graham Beastall, Podcast, Vitamin D
Posted by dapo on Jun 27, 2009 in
CPD,
Chemistry I have been given some dedicated time at work to work as a Training Officer. I am really looking forward to seeing what I can do with the time and how I can shape the training of people within the laboratory. Watch this space for developments…..
Tags: CPD, training
Posted by dapo on Nov 19, 2008 in
Chemistry This is the presentation file I promised earlier. I hope to write up some notes to accompany the presentation as there was extra detail in more talk that was absent from the slides. I always feel that a presentation ends up boring if the talk is just someone reading slide content.
presentation
Note: The file uses the Open Document Format.
Tags: ODF, presentation
Posted by dapo on Jun 2, 2007 in
CPD,
Chemistry,
Medical,
Talking point The laboratory I work in has recently seen a very unusual potassium result. During the afternoon, one of our consultants came across a high potassium result, 13.4, that he suspected might be an EDTA contaminated sample.
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Tags: potassium, Talking point
Posted by dapo on Jan 16, 2007 in
Chemistry,
Roche I attended a lecture at University of Westminster dealing with micro array technology with regards to Chemical Pathology in 1999 or 2000. At the time it seemed very promising. The lecture was performed by an academic but the underlying technology implementation was from Roche. It seems that this approach was subsequently mothballed. At the time, I heard it was for commercial reasons, as Roche were pushing a different immunoanalyser.
It now seems that Roche are back in the game…
http://www.roche.com/home/media/med_div/med_dia/med_dia_2007/med_dia_2007-01-15.htm
I believe this reference will provide some background:
Ekins, R. (1998) Ligand assays: from electrophoresis to miniaturized microarrays. Clin Chem, 44:9, p. 2015-2030
Or this link.
http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/44/9/2015
Posted by dapo on Jan 12, 2007 in
Chemistry The Christmas drop in workload is well and truly over. This week has been really busy. No surprise that the workload has returned, you just hope that it might be delayed for just a bit longer. It didn’t help that the lamp on out high throughput analyser required changing in the afternoon. A process that takes at least 90 minutes.
After all that hard work, I still had to face the poor weather we are currently getting. Bring on the summer!
Posted by dapo on Jan 7, 2007 in
Chemistry Working in a pathology department in the NHS, do you see yourself as a Lab Rat or a Button Monkey?