ADVANCE Discourse: Lab : Microbiology

The Quick Chip

Michael Jones — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:58:00 GMT

Treatment for a bacterial infection can all come down to a question of time. According to a recent story from Medical News Today , researchers from the University of Toronto (UT) in Canada have developed a chip to identify the problem and the best course...(read more)

Internal War Zone

Michael Jones — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:00 GMT

The more we learn about our own bodies, the more it seems like there’s just an endless war going on in there. Scientists have long since known about helpful bacteria inside of our bodies that help prevent infections, but an article from Medical News Today...(read more)

Lab-on-a-Chip, Round 2

Michael Jones — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:12:00 GMT

Imagine a healthcare facility where a small sample of blood is taken as you walk in the door, just .25 attomoles -- you’d barely notice. They drop your sample into a small, handheld device and, by the time your physician has come to see you, they are...(read more)

Univercell Builder

Michael Jones — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:37:00 GMT

The introduction of new drugs that combat disease and infection at the genetic level has been a landmark breakthrough, both for laboratory science as well as for patient treatment plans. Cell-based therapeutics, on the other hand, stand to become influential...(read more)

T-cells, Bee Cells

Michael Jones — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:16:00 GMT

It seems like bees have been all over the news lately. Even if a story isn’t directly about them, it somehow seems to find a way to relate. A recent story from Newswise cited the similarities between honey bees and human T-cells, which have apparently...(read more)

Information Overload

Michael Jones — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:30:00 GMT

As medical technology becomes more precise and continues to deliver growing quantities of data, the process of analyzing such large figures can be overwhelming. A recent news briefing from DarkDaily reported unstructured medical laboratory data as “one...(read more)

Suitcase School

Michael Jones — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Every day, laboratory technology is getting faster and more precise, but what about smaller? According to a recent Dark Daily news briefing , Australian pathologist, Dr. Tim Inglis, researched mosquito-borne illnesses on the move with a molecular pathology...(read more)

Preventing HAIs

Kerri Penno — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:45:00 GMT

According to a survey released by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), greater collaboration between lab professionals and infection preventionists may hold the...(read more)

State Slogans, State Flowers, State... Microbes?

Kelly Bocich — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:28:00 GMT

I got a kick out of this from the Dark Daily this morning. Hawaii's House of Representatives passed a bill that would recognize the bacterium Nesiotobacter exalbescens as the state's official microbe. We've seen how clever our readers are, so when I saw...(read more)

Fungal Infections On the Rise?

Kelly Bocich — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:24:00 GMT

I was catching up on recent coverage from some of our sister publications today, when this article from ADVANCE for Nurses caught my attention. Advances in medicine have, undoubtedly, extended our longevity. In ICUs, this means fungal infections may have...(read more)

Penn’s Amazing Achievements

Lynn — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:44:00 GMT

The ADVANCE team toured the wonderful laboratories at University of Pennsylvania/Penn Medicine last week. I wanted to help spread the word of some of their significant achievements. For example, a new treatment for leukemia, called CART 19, has proven...(read more)

Exclusive Content

Kerri Penno — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:18:00 GMT

ADVANCE wants to reward our loyal community of readers. We've gathered an exclusive collection of resources, spotlights and tools you won't find anywhere else. We'll continue compiling valuable information accessible only by ADVANCE members. Not yet a...(read more)

ASM Launches Global Resource for Clinical Microbiologists

Jill Hoffman — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:50:00 GMT

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has launched a clinical microbiology web portal that focuses all of ASM's clinical and external relevant content into a user-friendly site. "The portal will offer in one site a wealth of information needed for...(read more)

Annual Resource Directory Coming Soon

Lynn — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:59:00 GMT

As ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory is in its 20 th year of serving the clinical laboratory management community, we're so excited to bring you the latest edition of our annual resource directory. The staff has been working diligently on pulling...(read more)

Study Shows Women Can Self-test for HPV

Jill Hoffman — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:07:00 GMT

A team of German researchers has shown that women can accurately test themselves for HPV infection, the most common cause of cervical cancer. The research is published in the October Journal of Clinical Microbiology . 1 "The high sensitivity of this self-sampling...(read more)