Sample Management: Past, Present, and Future
insights from industryNeil BennManaging Director & FounderZiath Ltd.
In this interview, News-Medical talks to Neil Benn, Managing Director at Ziath, about the role they play
in the sample management industry and the exciting technologies on the horizon.
Please could you give an overview of Ziath and what they do?
Ziath was formed about 15 years ago by myself and a colleague, Tim Dilks. We determined that the technologies to be used for sample management in the lab, such as the tracking of tubes with medical, biological, chemical samples, et cetera, were quite difficult to use.
Our aim was to democratize sample management by making equipment that was easy to use and developed by the people who worked in the field.
It’s that time of year again, when we look at making a fresh start, turning the page, hitting the reset button, call it what you like, on many aspects of .
It’s that time of year again, when we look at making a fresh start, turning the page, hitting the reset button, call it what you like, on many aspects of .
You would think that the sight of a fully-grown Bigfoot, or of a snarling Dogman, would be enough to deter us away from them. Sometimes, however, it just doesn’t work. Or, it doesn’t work enough. On those occasions when sight just won’t cut it, certain strange creatures have something else that works very well for them – what we might call built-in weaponry. It comes in the form of nothing less than sound. Acoustics. Noise. Witness testimony has demonstrated that it works against us. I’ll begin with the Chupacabra of Puerto Rico, a creature (or creatures) that surfaced in 1995. On my second trek around the island, with film-maker Paul Kimball, our guide Orlando Pla told us something very interesting. Namely, that you could keep a Chupacabra away by whistling at it! That was not all. On my third visit to Puerto Rico, I heard the exact reverse of that scenario. I was told that the Chupacabra – very,