The latest issue of Lab Culture is now available both in print and online. This issue of Lab Culture features Leaders from the bench, such as Nancy Bowen, MSc, Head of the National HIV Reference Laboratory, Division of National Public Health Laboratories in Kenya. Meanwhile, Redeemer University’s Christian Happi answers the question: what is genomics? Collins Otieno extrapolates on pathogenic genomics, discussing the future of surveillance in Africa.
Featured topics include the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative, a continent-wide effort to strengthen public health surveillance and outbreaks; the impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on testing; guidance for HPV screenings in Africa; scaling up laboratory testing; and the pathophysiology of COVID-19-association coagulopathy, as well as its impact on laboratory measures of coagulation.