laboratory safety
Incident reporting without blame theatre
Incident, exposure, route, and corrective action are different words. This glossary shows what a useful report contains and what blame leaves out.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
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immunoassays
Reporting an immunoassay so another lab can audit it
An auditable immunoassay file holds lots, the unit, the curve model, raw blanks and excluded wells. A bar on a slide does not replace them.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
gene expression
The MIQE idea in everyday language
What a qPCR report should disclose so another scientist can judge the number: sample handling, reverse transcription, primers, efficiency, reference genes and the statistic.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
proteomics
What a proteomics report should state
A proteomics report a second lab can audit names groups, digestion, the database version, FDR cut-offs, normalisation and the missing-value rule.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read