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September 8, 2009 6:17 AM by Scott Warner

Most of us aren't mathematicians. Well, I'm not. I've known people who are just better at "seeing" math than myself. I've always struggled to add a column of figures in my head, forget solving Fermat's Last Theorem . Which has been solved already. Just Read More...

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Package Inserts
September 2, 2009 6:14 AM by Scott Warner

In writing a procedure, I strive to make it the reference on the bench. Yet no matter how good a written procedure is, the package insert is always invaluable. There are two reasons for this. One, the package insert is the main reference for any procedure Read More...

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A New Marker
April 8, 2009 4:26 AM by Scott Warner

When I spoke with the diaDexus rep the other day on the telephone, he told me the PLAC test , a new test that measures lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A 2 (Lp-PLA 2 ), is being done in forty labs across the US, with another added every two weeks. Read More...

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Smear Art
August 11, 2008 11:48 AM by Scott Warner

Little these days is not automated. The art of laboratory medicine is vanishing, from spectrophotometers to Folin-Wu filtrates to Lee-White clotting times. I'd wax poetic about the meditative lure of bench work, but I don't miss mouth pipetting , spit Read More...

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Quick and Dirty, Part One
March 13, 2008 1:21 PM by Scott Warner

As a programmer on the coast of Maine 20 years ago, I liked a quick and dirty solution--the inelegant, simplistic, but often workable idea. Scientists call this lex parsimoniae or Occam's Razor (after a 14 th century English logician), which states the Read More...

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