ADInstruments Blog

For Damian Bailey, a Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, the attraction of freediving is partly about discovering the limits of physical capability, but it is also about understanding one of the most important processes in the body - oxygen transport to the brain - and gaining unique insights that may help millions of people to live better and longer, disease-free lives.

This update sees fixes to the bugs that you've told us are... well... bugging you. We've also updated the Sampling Panel and Data Value Panel with the ability to select the time units manually.

We've been working hard and have recently updated Lt with the student sorting, sectioning and group grading features you've been asking for!

This week we introduce you to Dr Kevin Evans, our fearless rock climber and Research Support Specialist working out of our Oxford office. Kevin was lucky enough to be able to combine his hobbies of adventure sports and climbing with his knowledge of physiology into a very interesting and energetic PhD.

This week we’d like to introduce Paula Croft, the Manager of our European Support Team. Paula’s background in cardiovascular research at Kings College, London - where she used both the PowerLab and LabChart - gave her the knowledge to successfully move into a support role at the ADInstruments’ Oxford office.

This week we’d like to introduce Tom, our talented Education Support specialist. Based in Oxford, Tom travels all over the UK and EU region helping with installations of education software and hardware at universities and health science institutions, as well as running workshops for educators wanting to upskill or explore the different applications available in LabChart, LabTutor and Lt.

Philip Carvil, a PhD student at KCL funded by the European Space Agency’s Science and technology Office (ESTEC), has been working with the Space Medicine Office at the European Astronaut Centre to develop and test a ‘loading’ SkinSuit for astronauts that aims to help mitigate some of the health problems they face in microgravity. Specifically, he is looking at how the SkinSuit can affect the spine “with the aim to attenuate spinal elongation in space and assist in preserving the spinal stabiliser muscles.”

High quality data is the cornerstone of great research. Here we revisit the essentials of data quality: sampling rates, amplification and filtering. You can also watch one of our most popular webinars to see how to create and change all of these settings in LabChart. Hope you find it useful!

ADI Science Hero: Dr Emily Zimmerman, Developmental Speech Physiologist

Neuroscientist Bruce Johnson is one of the founders of the Classroom of Excellence CrawFly workshops. We spoke to Bruce about how he started out in Neuroscience and what advice he'd give to others considering this career. You can meet him first hand at CrawFly 2016 next month - there are still a few places left!

Thanks for your interest in the Myotatic Reflex protocol! Find the full protocol below. We hope it helps you in your teaching. Teach your students a lesson they'll never forget with the myotatic reflex! Use this free protocol to have your students compare the joint angle and latency of the myotatic...

Use this free experimental protocol to have your students activate their sympathetic nervous system via the cold pressor test! Investigate the effect of cold water on blood pressure, heart rate, and pulse amplitude.

When it comes to ‘maths that could transform lives,' it’s hard to go past recent work by cardiovascular pharmacologist Dr Manasi Nandi and mathematician Dr Philip Aston, who will be co-presenting an exhibit at the Science Museum entitled Cardiomorph. The exhibit is part of a festival clebrating the London Mathematical Society. Manasi and Philip head up a team of biologists and mathematicians who have collaborated to apply non-linear mathematics to blood pressure data in a completely novel way - with some surprising and potentially life-saving results.