What Everyone Should Know about Lab Tests
A new study estimates that in the United States, some 251,000 deaths per year occur because of errors in medical care. This makes medical errors…
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How to Prepare Your Lab for Next-Gen Sequencing
In the next 10 years, it’s estimated that genomics data could account for up to 40 exabytes of data per year alone. To put this in perspective, 1 exabyte is…
Nipah Virus Infection – Treatments and Preventions
Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from the natural hosts- fruit bats- to humans either…
Scanning and Printing Solutions to Expand Diagnostic Testing
It is hard to recall another time in this generation when diagnostic testing has been demanded at the same scale…
Saliva vs. Blood Diagnostics for Hormone Testing
Diagnostic testing has a long, bloody (i.e., blood-based) history, and when a physician orders a test, the usual response is to strap on a tourniquet, pull out a syringe, and extract a venous blood sample. For some tests, though, and, especially to measure levels of steroid hormones such as estrogen, testosterone, or cortisol, a blood …
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A Promising Way to Better Measure Testosterone
The sex hormone, testosterone, is important for both men and women, as well as other animals. While it is called a sex hormone, testosterone has…
A Global Commitment to Healthcare
Sunday’s opening plenary session featured a luminary of science, C. Ronald Kahn, MD, chief academic officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center and…
Working with Ethylene Oxide Sterilization
Disinfection is serious business, especially now during the COVID-19 global pandemic, when the need to disinfect and sterilize everything from offices…