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Navigating the quagmire of international shipments Cryoniss is a team of experts in biological sample storage and logistics management solutions who have a risk-based approach to coordinating international shipments. This presentation will provide practical hints and tips to ensure a successful delivery of international shipment of biological [...]
Critical Impact of COVID-19 on Current and Future Clinical Trials Guest Editorial by Dr Louise Scott: Impact of COVID-19 on current and future clinical trials - a niche CRO’s perspective. Aptus Clinical is a Clinical Contract Research Organisation (CRO) based in Alderley Park, specialising in innovative clinical [...]
A Brand is Simply Trust When the Cryoniss team started thinking about how we wanted our brand to appear to the outside world, we asked ourselves some searching questions. Who are we? Why would customers place their trust in us? What is our mission? “A brand is [...]
Delivering Agility Without Compromising On Quality. Flexibility, agility and responsiveness to your customer’s needs is a critical. There are many key aspects of a service that ensures customers are not only satisfied but delighted. The ability to be flexible and responsive to your customer’s needs [...]
Cell Lines: The Curse of the Contaminating Cell Line Henrietta Lacks was a historic figure in the field of cell biology. Her unfortunate death in 1951, lead to the isolation of the first immortalised cell line, HeLa. This cell line has since been used by researchers the [...]
Mycoplasma, the Trojan Horse of cell culture. Mycoplasma are the smallest free-living organisms and considered to be the simplest form of bacteria, from the class Mollicutes. The presence of Mycoplasma in cell culture has been well established, ever since researchers at John Hopkins identified these Mollicutes in [...]
Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? In 2016, Monya Baker carried out an impactful survey of 1,500 scientists asking them if they had ever had trouble reproducing data. More than 70% of researchers reported a reproducibility crisis after failing to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half [...]
1st class competitive QC testing service Having spent a large proportion of my career generating and validating reagents and QC testing for end-user assays, I have always been truly passionate about making sure scientists get the basics right before launching into the complicated science. Because of this [...]
Cryosphere Rebrands to Cryoniss - 28 May 2020. Cryosphere Services rebrands to become Cryoniss and launches a new corporate image. Cryosphere Services Ltd was registered in March 2018. In 2 years Sonia Houghton and Phil Hargreaves have established a world class biological sample storage capability. [...]
Optimising the biopreservation of biological samples The ability to store samples indefinitely and recover them on demand is a highly valued, yet challenging field of research. The ability to store samples indefinitely and recover them on demand is a highly valued, yet challenging field of research. Good sample [...]
