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 [...]
Pandemics - How To Keep Cool Working Around COVID-19. Storing and managing biological samples during a global pandemic. *This article was first published in March 2020. Keeping cool in a global pandemic At the end of 2019, the SARS-Cov-2 virus began to spread across the [...]
Why is good aseptic technique important? Good aseptic technique is important as Cell lines pose a biosafety risk to the user, potentially harbouring pathogenic viruses, adventitious agents and genetically modified organisms. (GMOs). The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (1995) Categorisation of Biological Agents According to Hazard and Category [...]
