Our biological sciences department includes five wet laboratories, and has the capacity to conduct the following types of analysis:
Biomaterial engineering
- Molecular imprinting
- Uptake and release of drugs for delivery to eye
Contact lens materials
- Defects
- Diameter
- Effect of air exposure
- Inflammatory markers
- Lipid deposits
- Moisture analysis
- Power profile
- Protein deposits
- Radius
- Surface wettability
- Thickness
- Topography
- Water content analysis
- Water break-up
Conjunctival analysis
- Cytology
- Protein analysis
- RNA regulation
Corneal cell collection and analysis
- Cell identification/phenotype
- Cytotoxicity (in vitro)
Lens care systems
- Cleaning efficacy (proteins and lipids)
- Physical characteristics
Meibum analysis
- Lipid analysis
Microbiology and toxicology
- Anti-microbial efficacy of lens care systems
- Bacterial adhesion
- Bacterial growth
- Biofilm assay
- Biofilm testing
- Microbial contamination
- Microbial identification
Tear film analysis
- Cytokine analysis
- Ferning
- Lipid analysis
- Protein analysis and quantification
- Osmolality
Toxicology
- Cytotoxicity
- In vitro cell culture
- Immunohistochemistry