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Bradycardia is an interesting condition which is both a risk factor and an example of the human body’s amazing ability to adapt to an individual’s lifestyle - a lowered heart rate balances the increased stroke volume of a training athlete’s heart to keep cardiac output optimized. New research suggests a cause for this effect in the highly trained athlete.

A month ago we welcomed the latest additions to the LabChart Compatible community - a Blood Flow Monitor and an Oxygen Monitor from Oxford Optronix that record directly into LabChart . Oxford Optronix has a history of creating sophisticated equipment for clinical medicine and life sciences, with...

A 0.1 decrease in seawater pH doesn't seem like much but a recent study into the retinal function of damselfish suggests this small change could impact the sensory systems of fish.

We’d like to announce the release of LabChart 8 for Mac ! The latest version of LabChart for the Mac platform has both great new features and many small improvements. With this update, you can now visualize your data in Scope View or Spectrum view, use the improved Stimulator and Data Pad, and take...

We’d like to congratulate Aderemi Aladeokin, a scientist from Nigeria, on winning the TReND-ADInstruments Scholarship to attend our most recent CrawFly Neurobiology Educators course.

We'd like to announce the arrival of our new Human Non-invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) system ! We’ve worked with Finapres Medical Systems to create a great new system for monitoring blood pressure continuously and non-invasively. Based on the Finapres-1000 module, the Human NIBP system has many...

You often see photos of athletes ‘enjoying’ a bath of ice after a big race or game. Known as ‘cold water immersion’, this technique is believed to speed recovery and reduce muscle soreness. How does it work? One theory is that localized muscle cooling facilitates oxygen delivery to the muscle cells...

We’ve had a focus on China this month, with Dr JC Tan, from our Sydney office, spending a month travelling to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wenzhou and Beijing giving workshops and demonstrations of both research applications and education products. It was a fantastic month and really rewarding to see the...

The HRV Module provides great tools and algorithms for analyzing heart rate variability in ECG recordings or arterial pulse signals. This Software Tip shows how you can take advantage of built-in LabChart 8 features, such as Data Pad Plots, to extend your analysis by tracking certain HRV statistics...

The latest video from one of our local customers - Rowan Ellis of BodySynergy - uses the Trigno Wireless Foundation System and LabChart to demonstrate clearly how a simple adjustment to your posture can take the strain off your lower back muscles. It’s truly amazing the difference that activating...

In conjunction with the American Physiological Society ( APS ), ADInstruments is sponsoring the inaugural Institute on Teaching and Learning (ITL) - a new hands-on course for physiology educators. The ITL aims to engage educators from community college through professional school in interactive...

Our products have some very diverse research applications. Here, we look at a study on emotional contagion, conducted by Dezecache et al in Paris which looks at how emotions spread from person to person to person.

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