The ever-decreasing cost of next generation sequencing (NGS) has allowed genetic testing to make the leap from research into routine screening applications. In the clinical setting...

In an ideal world, not only does your lab have an active infection prevention and control (IPC) program in place, but a dedicated IPC supervisor who regularly trains staff in ...

How AI and automation are transforming medical science

For Newton Medical Center, a 103-bed, not-for-profit facility serving a rural community of about 60,000 people in and around Wichita, Kansas, the philosophy of continuous improvement...

There are probably few—if any—readers of this for whom the name Barbara McClintock doesn’t ring a bell. While all Nobel Prize laurates gain widespread recognition, in her case...

Currently, there is a great deal of (necessary) attention focused on the lack of reproducibility of scientific studies, often caused by bias due to small sample size, cherry picking...

For decades we have heard that the laboratory personnel shortage is coming. Today that shortage seems more evident than ever before. We have read about the main reasons contributing...

How a Texas university steers young scientists to research careers

Tomography is an imaging technique used across a wide variety of fields, ranging from radiology and nuclear medicine, to geophysics and materials science. It provides three-dimensional...

Urinalysis chemistry test strip proceduresMonitor the precision of urinalysis chemistry test strip procedures by using Bio-Rad’s qUAntify Advance Control. This assayed, human-...

How long has AACC’s Society for Young Clinical Laboratorians (SYCL)program been in existence and can you share a success story? The SYCL was launched in 2004 with the goal of ...