The National Biofilms Innovation Centre aims to create a fusion of world-class research and industrial expertise to support the delivery of breakthrough technologies in the science led understanding, control and management of clinical, industrial and environmental biofilms. We are proud that Protlab are a partner in this mission and they continue to provide important resources and expertise for […]
Biodiversity is essential for nature to manage and balance the ecosystem and man has disrupted it, nowhere more evident than in the environments that we live in. Our homes and other indoor spaces prevent nature’s natural forces from exerting a balance, enabling dangerous organisms to gather in safety, duplicate and be protected through surface biofilm […]
Biofilm as a SARS-CoV-2 Virus Reservoir for Fomite Transmission, the WHO’s 5th Category by N. Stephenson & W. Battistutti Protlab GPL’s editorial response to the transmission categories reported on in the WHO global study of origins. The WHO COVID-19 Origins of Sars Study of the 30th March 2021 identified ‘possible pathways of emergence’ in a 120 page […]
Infectious Bronchitis (IB) is the name given to a highly contagious disease of baby chicks first recorded in North Dakota in the USA in 1931. In 1937, the cause was shown to be a virus, unrelated to any known viruses and named simply ‘IB virus’ or ‘IBV’. Subsequently, investigations showed that the virus affects not […]