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Facial wound secrets revealed for scarless repair
Surgeons have known for decades that facial wounds heal with less scarring than injuries on other parts of the body. This phenomenon makes evolutionary sense: Rapid healing of body wounds prevents death from blood loss, infection or impaired mobility, but healing of the face requires that the skin maintain its ability to function well.
Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes
Socializing at a young age helps to develop greater diversity in children’s microbiota, according to an analysis of baby-to-baby transmission of gut bacteria.
Why Evidence-Based Laboratory Testing Algorithms Still Struggle to Scale
Evidence-based laboratory testing algorithms are widely promoted to improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce unnecessary testing, and control laboratory costs. Yet adoption remains inconsistent across healthcare systems. A new review published in Cureus reinforces a familiar reality for lab managers: the barriers to scaling evidence-based laboratory testing algorithms are operational, not scientific.
Bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil was an unknown life form
Enigmatic organism known as Prototaxites cannot be fungus, new analysis finds
Compressive Pangenomics Breakthrough Enables Analysis of Millions of Genomes
UC engineers introduce PanMAN, a data structure that compresses and encodes large-scale genomic variation and evolutionary history, transforming microbial and human genome studies
US Survey: Patients Push for Predictive Lab Testing as Cost and Reimbursement Pressures Mount
The survey found that patients increasingly expect greater control over when and why lab tests are ordered. Among adults who have had lab work in the past two years, 93% said they expect their physician to order a test upon request. More than a third (37%) have asked for testing based on information from personal research, such as advice from family, friends, or online sources, and 17% have made requests influenced by social media content. For US lab leaders, the data signal a move away from strictly symptom-driven, clinician-initiated testing toward more consumer-driven demand.
Four companies receive FDA warning letters for unapproved HIV test kits
According to the letters published by the FDA this week, all four companies have been selling HIV serological diagnostic dried blood spot card self-collection kits without marketing authorization in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The FDA previously notified three of these companies that their HIV DBS card self-collection kits were not considered LDTs.
Patients with clonal hematopoiesis have increased heart disease risk following cancer treatment
About 1 in 5 patients with cancer who undergo genetic testing are incidentally found to have mutations in their blood called clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP). A study from Vanderbilt Health researchers reveals that it puts them at increased risk for heart disease following cancer treatment.
New AI Collaboration Between Thermo Fisher Scientific and NVIDIA Signals Shift in Scientific Instrumentation
Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to embed artificial intelligence directly into scientific instrumentation and laboratory infrastructure. The partnership brings together Thermo Fisher’s portfolio of instruments and laboratory software with NVIDIA’s AI computing platforms to accelerate automation, improve accuracy, and connect laboratory data to scalable AI systems.
Scientists discover the brain region behind high blood pressure
The lateral parafacial region sits in the brainstem – the oldest part of the brain – which controls automatic functions such as digestion, breathing, and heart rate.
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