A medical laboratory (also known as clinical laboratory) is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens with the purpose of getting information about a patients health in order to treat, diagnose and/or prevent disease. Medical laboratories often staff the following: Phlebotomists, Pathologists, Pathologists's assistants, Medical laboratory scientists, Medical laboratory assistants, Medical laboratory technicians, and Clinical biochemists, just to name a few.
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Date: June 17, 2021 Time: 11:00am PDT, 8:00pm CET BACKGROUND Kidney transplant recipients and patients on hemodialysis are immunocompromised populations excluded from vaccine trials. Data ar...
Date: June 10, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Microglia, the primary brain macrophages, regulate a plethora of processes that impact the organization of neural circuits, including sy...
Date: June 9, 2021 Time: 09 June 2021, 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 4pm CEST cells with dramatic implications on the validity of past cell culture related research. The fact that at least 509 cell lin...
DATE: June 7, 2021 TIME: 4:00pm BST. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 1 million individuals contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every day....
The effective use of Quality Control (QC) does not stop once QC results are accepted and patient testing begins. The key to reliable patient results and consistent laboratory processes is by...
The pandemic sent pharmaceutical and medical device industries scrambling to continue operations under social distancing guidelines. Businesses sent their employees to work from home, yet so...
Date: May 11, 2021 Time: 10:00zm PDT Your samples are some of the most valuable assets in the laboratory. After spending countless hours on extraction and preparation, your conclusions could...
Date: May 6, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) The goal of this educational webinar is to introduce the audience to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the ways in which they are...
Date: May 6, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CEST Eukaryotic cell cultures respond to the most subtle influence. Apart from the risk of contamination, minimal changes in cultivati...
Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2018, there were 18.1 million new cases and 9.5 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. With the advancement of next generation seq...
(Adapted from a DPYD verification document written by Hannah Stevens, Trainee Clinical Scientist) 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine are fluoropyrimidine chemotherapies that are used to...
As NGS panels grow, test interpretation becomes more complex and time-consuming / With the explosion of NGS data, the need for consolidated databases with reliable and transparent curation a...