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How blood culture kitting enhances laboratory efficiency
Lowering contamination rates, increasing efficiency, and reducing waste!
The Science-Backed Benefits of Truly Unplugging From Work
New research shows that fully unplugging during time off provides lasting health benefits—and lab managers should take note.
How automation allows laboratory staff to be more human
Three ways informatics and automation can alleviate staffing challenges amidst rising test volumes
The Power of Appreciation: Protecting Lab Teams from Unfair Task Stress
New research shows how recognition helps employees cope with unreasonable assignments and prevent burnout
Drones Fly over London to Transport Blood Samples between NHS Hospital Laboratories
Hospitals around the world are increasingly employing drone services to deliver laboratory samples and medical supplies between clinical laboratories. One such six-month test program in the United Kingdom (UK) has drones quickly and efficiently transporting blood samples between Synnovis’ lab at Guy’s Hospital and the lab at St Thomas Hospital through the skies over London.
Challenges and strategies for adopting point-of-care testing for infectious diseases
As the pandemic highlighted, POCT has become a powerful tool for diagnosing infectious diseases. While the ubiquity of COVID-19 tests significantly accelerated technological advancements in POCT, several key challenges remain
New Method Enables Scientists to Surpass the Resolution Limit of Fluorescence Microscopy
Imagine you’re sitting at a pond, listening to the din of croaking frogs. You want to know how many frogs are in the pond, but you can’t pick out the individual croaks—only the combined sound rising and falling in volume as frogs start and stop communicating. But what if you were able to examine these volume changes to figure out how many frogs are in the pond?
That’s the idea behind a new method developed by the Funke Lab at Janelia to count the individual molecules contained in a single spot of light detected by a fluorescence microscope—a quantity important for understanding the underlying biology of a living system.
Researchers Identify Biomarkers Associated with Consumption of Ultra Processed Foods
Findings could reduce the need for self-reporting in future nutritional studies and lead to new clinical laboratory testing.
Are we ready for bugs at dinner, or is the world just not that hungry for change?
Surveys conducted across the United States (US), Germany, the United Kingdom (UK), and Italy reveal that fewer than 30% of adults would consider trying insect dishes, and even fewer would serve them at home. Disgust (a protective emotion linked to disease avoidance) surfaces when people picture antennae or feel the sensation of crunchy legs.
Recommendations for Clinical Molecular Laboratories for Detection of Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Cancer
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is a genomic feature present in some malignant neoplasms and is attributed to the failure of the homologous recombination repair pathway. Tumors with an HRD-positive status may have a distinct prognosis and/or response to therapies, including poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors. The Association for Molecular Pathology assembled an expert panel to examine current practice and perform a scoping review of the medical literature pertaining to the molecular detection of HRD in the clinical setting.
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