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Digital PCR – a technology set to transform clinical testing?
Pregnancy screening, cancer treatment, organ transplant – digital PCR testing has the power to enhance clinical decision-making. What’s needed to take it mainstream?
Tag: Applied Science
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How to boil your egg perfectly every time – according to simulation
Search ‘how to boil an egg’ on Google, and you get over three billion results, some telling you to put the egg in cold water after boiling to preserve the runny yolk. Intrigued, we decided to investigate the science behind this advice.
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Reducing the carbon footprint and plastic waste of LFTs: Evidence-based opportunities
With urgent and important demand for LFTs, jeopardizing performance, ease-of-use, supply chain availability, and low cost isn’t an option – but sustainability strategies are evolving in response to consumer expectations.
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Mastering fluid flow to enhance user experience
Ice cream and blood are two things you probably don’t want to think about simultaneously, but how a substance flows is a vitally important consideration for many products.
Case Study
Bringing breast cancer treatment into the physician’s office
We were asked to develop a new cryoablation technology in this crowded IP space. Our scientists and engineers started from first principles and were able to create a new patented system that enabled the office-based treatment of breast cancer.
Case Study
High-performance AI swim app
Speedo wanted to launch their next generation swim tracking product in time for it to be pre-installed on a new Samsung wearable. So we quickly developed sophisticated algorithms to use accelerometer and gyro data to create reliable performance metrics.
Case Study
Smart growth for soft ice cream market
Unilever identified an opportunity to trial a new business model and an innovative food service dispensing system for their leading ice cream brand. We provided end-to-end support to design, develop, and build 50 connected devices which were scaled up and pilot launched in outlets across Europe.
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Making it last: Why testing is vital to product sustainability
How long do we expect a product to last? Many sophisticated technology products, such as phones and tablets, are routinely replaced after a few years as specifications evolve rapidly. But what about a chair or a toaster? There are a huge range of products that we only replace when they…
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Women in innovation: Design & Research
Women play a crucial role in innovation and business success at CDP. We’re proud of the critical contribution made by our women colleagues, who lead in diverse areas of innovation including design, research, science, technology, engineering and human factors. In this first interview of Women in Innovation series, we talked…
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Dreaming big during COVID-19
Product designer Laura Sierra reflects on what she learnt during a virtual design competition.
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The systems approach to formulation and product design
Today’s liquid and paste formulations, from washing up liquid to shampoo to toothpaste are complex structured fluids or solids which are designed to meet the demanding needs of consumers. It is tempting to regard the formulation or recipe as the main challenge. However, these complex formulations behave very differently in…
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New Biolab for CDP’s HQ
CDP has just opened a brand-new biological laboratory at its Cambridge HQ, certified to allow research on containment level 2 biological hazards such as micro-organisms, blood and other body products. ‘We are delighted to announce that our new lab has now received approval from the UK Health and Safety Executive,’…