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...
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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...
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 ...
![Figure 1. PET/CT images showing 18F-FDG tumor uptake, in four treatment combinations, at the beginning of treatment and 25 days later. Red arrows indicate tumor location at baseline and day 25, green arrows show sites of typical 18F-FDG uptake in brown adipose tissue (BAT). Reproduced from reference [1] in accordance with the Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).](https://img.mlo-online.com/files/base/ebm/mlo/image/2019/07/mouse.5d30996e633a1.png?auto=format,compress&fit=crop&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "Figure 1. PET/CT images showing 18F-FDG tumor uptake, in four treatment combinations, at the beginning of treatment and 25 days later. Red arrows indicate tumor location at baseline and day 25, green arrows show sites of typical 18F-FDG uptake in brown adipose tissue (BAT). Reproduced from reference [1] in accordance with the Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).")
