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Lab-on-a-Chip, Round 2
May 2, 2013 12:13 PM
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Michael Jones
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
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Univercell Builder
April 5, 2013 4:46 PM
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Michael Jones
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
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T-cells, Bee Cells
March 13, 2013 4:17 PM
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Michael Jones
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
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Information Overload
January 9, 2013 12:42 PM
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Michael Jones
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
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Suitcase School
December 5, 2012 1:06 PM
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Michael Jones
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
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Researchers Win Flow Cytometers
December 21, 2009 9:52 AM
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Kerri Penno
Accuri Cytometers Inc., a life sciences company developing bench-top flow cytometer systems, recently announced the 2009 recipients of its Accuri Flow Cytometer Creativity Awards program, which provides a free Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer System each year
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New Lab Test Helps Predict Kidney Damage
July 27, 2009 3:22 PM
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Caitlin Maloney
A new laboratory test, urine neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL), will help predict if patients will develop acute kidney injury (AKI), a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) reported. Another study in JASN also
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Pathogen Immunity
May 18, 2009 3:35 PM
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Kerri Penno
One of today's ASM Award Lectures was the Maurice Hilleman Merck Award, presented to Stanley A. Plotkin, Sanofi Pasteur, Doylestown, PA. Maurice Hilleman is known for having developed more than 40 vaccines and is credited with having saved more lives
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Hive Health
May 18, 2009 2:13 PM
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Kerri Penno
In today's "Advances in New Pathogen Discovery" Colloquium at ASM, Joseph DeRisi, University of California, San Francisco, spoke about viral detection, specifically the ViroChip. In studies, the ViroChip has proven to perform with accuracy at least on
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