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 ready to tell you if they would like further testing for diseases like Alzheimer’s or cancer ...

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 in the coming years. A recent story from Newswise reported cell therapy as the next ...

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 lab that could fit in a suitcase. Ignoring for a second the cartoony image of Wile ...

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As ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory is in its 20th 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 numerous resources from all of our mediums-online articles, archived webinars, new reports ...

The following is a guest blog submitted by John G. Thomas, PhD, director of the Biofilm Research Laboratory for Translational Studies and senior consultant for Clinical Microbiology, West Virginia University Hospitals. Saliva: A Diagnostic FluidMost present day laboratories assays of immunology markers use older generation ELISA; but ...