A medical laboratory (also known as clinical laboratory) is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens with the purpose of getting information about a patients health in order to treat, diagnose and/or prevent disease. Medical laboratories often staff the following: Phlebotomists, Pathologists, Pathologists's assistants, Medical laboratory scientists, Medical laboratory assistants, Medical laboratory technicians, and Clinical biochemists, just to name a few.
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Date: May 24, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) NGS tumor profiling has become the mainstay of modern cancer therapy. Several NCCN-guided and FDA-approved therapies are c...
Date: May 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic technologies are increasingly applied in a clinical context for disease classific...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been...
According to published literature, up to 65% of errors occur in the preanalytical phase of laboratory testing, and coagulation assays are particularly sensitive to preanalytical issues......
Date: April 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CET) Cell competition is a mechanism of interaction that dictates cell selection based on differences in cellular fitness. We...
The Patient is Bleeding: Balancing Clinical and Laboratory Needs Coagulopathy in the bleeding surgical patient can get worse by the second! One of the real-world operational challenges......
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a dramatic toll worldwide. Its impact possibly has been the most palpable amongst uniquely vulnerable groups of patients, such as patients with a cancer diagn...
Objective : Evaluation of EDTA-gel blood collection tubes from remote locations for NIPS (Non-invasive prenatal testing). Design: Paired comparisons Population: 61 pregnant women from Britis...