October 2007 - Posts

Conference Season
October 26, 2007 11:10 AM by Kerri Penno

While laboratory organizations scatter their meetings throughout the year, and spring was certainly packed with conventions, fall certainly seems like conference season in the ADVANCE office! Editor, Matthew T. Patton, and Editorial Assistant, Amanda Read More...

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Back from AABB
October 24, 2007 2:06 PM by Amanda Koehler

I just flew back from Anaheim, CA, from my first laboratory conference, and boy, are my arms tired! (I heard someone actually use that "punch line" the other day ... is that even a teeny bit amusing anymore?) Seriously, though. I left the strangely-warm-for-this-time-of-year Read More...

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At Least I'm Not Digging Ditches
October 24, 2007 12:25 PM by Matthew T. Patton

More than once recently I have felt like my head is going to pop off. We've been doing so many things here at ADVANCE at a frenetic pace. We decided to redesign our entire Web site (including adding this blog) and go to full color in print (coupled with Read More...

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Learning From History? Maybe Not
October 24, 2007 12:19 PM by Matthew T. Patton

I'm a huge genealogy and history buff. While recently looking over the "Biennial Report of the State Board of Health (1902-1903)" for Kentucky, I came across this report from the county doctor, T. Atchison Frazer, MD. Dr. Frazer was in the era of the Read More...

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An Open Dialog
October 23, 2007 9:35 AM by Kerri Penno

If we have learned anything from our interactions with readers and laboratory scientists this year, it's how eager you are to promote your profession. To that end, you are incredibly flexible. In response to a recent Question of the Month ( see the responses Read More...

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