Gate Scientific

Makers of simple, easy, on-site veterinary diagnostic tests & lab equipment with unprecedented functionality, such as temp and pH measurement in a stir bar.

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If you’d like to talk (to a human) about partnering with Gate Scientific to bring pH, temperature, and spin-sensing technology to your lab automation, drop us a line!

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It’s so easy to talk to robots these days, we’re all getting a bit sick of it. What’s difficult is getting robots to talk to your lab equipment.

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Here it is, having a productive chat about surface treatment for microfluidics manufacture with the UR3e from @Universal_Robot.

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So let’s take a look at the current guidance on EHV testing, the justifications for it, and what test results on swab and blood samples really mean.

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Many horse owners are reluctant to test for Equine herpesvirus (EHV,) worrying that a false-positive will lead to needless quarantine.

#D752 #EHV1 #veterinary

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EHV testing must transition to point of care, and the results have to be fast. Today's article shows how Gate Diagnostics will make it happen.

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Europe has had another close call with equine herpesvirus (EHV) in Spain and the Netherlands, again demonstrating that centralized testing is simply too slow to catch this highly infectious disease.

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Would you deny this cat the POCT revolution he deserves?

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Veterinary diagnostics for companion animals must come into the modern era, starting by adopting point of care (POC or POCT) pathogen tests that employ nucleic acid detection. We explore the how and why in today's article.

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Let's take a look at one critical issue—the development cycle—and what Gate Diagnostics is doing to fix it.

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The outlook for Point of Care Testing (POC or POCT) has been favorable for several decades running, but we still rely primarily on centralized labs for pathogen detection and other diagnostic testing. Why?

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Why don’t we switch all testing over to Point Of Care? Why have a centralized lab at all? One major barrier is information management.

Let's explore the problem and get a sneak peak at how Gate Diagnostics is going to solve it.

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It’s unclear what data this test provided, beyond what you could gather by looking at the affected area. In any event, it probably wasn’t worth the effort of calibrating the insects.

Let's explore the history of diagnostic testing, in today's article.

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The earliest known attempt at diagnostic testing was performed two and a half thousand years ago. That’s when ancient physicians diagnosed boils by pouring urine on the ground. If it attracted insects, the test was positive.

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We cover the nitty gritty intracellular parasitic details in today's article.

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It comes from the water. A parasite of parasites, its lifecycle is so convoluted that we still aren’t certain we’ve got it right, after decades of study.

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Once it gets into a host, it invades their cells, disrupting their natural processes and filling their cytoplasm with its numerous offspring.

This isn’t some creature from a ’50s horror film. It’s the bacterium Neorickettsia risticii, the cause of Potomac Horse Fever.

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If you managed to avoid COVID until after you were vaccinated, thank a horse.

If you'd like to know why you're thanking a horse, the answer can be found in today's article, exploring the lessons learned from the Great Epizootic of 1872.

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