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Latest White Papers

The Case of the Missing Mole: When costly Lost or Missing Laboratory Test Samples Instigate Courier Management Redesign

Incidents of lost or missing laboratory test samples carry heavy consequences. Yet, many laboratories find that accountability, reconciliation, and tracking persist as issues. This white paper will be useful for laboratory directors, lab managers, courier managers, logistics managers, and outreach managers—whether in hospital-based laboratories or independent medical laboratories working as outreach labs—who employ and manage couriers in-house.

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Latest E-Briefings

University of Athens Researchers Create Wooden Tongue Depressor with Biosensing Capabilities Capable of Identifying Biomarkers

Scientists believe the biodegradable device could someday help detect multiple saliva biomarkers. If true, it might provide a new type of test for clinical laboratories When it comes to tongue depressors, it turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. Researchers...

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Researchers at Stanford University Discover Gene Variant That Appears to Protect Individuals from Both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

Study findings may lead to new clinical laboratory tests, as well as vaccines and immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases Research into the human genome continues to produce useful new insights. This time, a study led by researchers at Stanford University...

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Asian Company Launches World’s First Diagnostic Test for Microbiome of the Mouth

Collected data could give healthcare providers and clinical laboratories a practical view of individuals’ oral microbiota and lead to new diagnostic assays When people hear about microbiome research, they usually think of the study of gut bacteria which Dark Daily has...

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Stanford Researchers Discover Junk DNA Affects Gene Expression

Research findings could lead to new biomarkers for genetic tests and give clinical laboratories new capabilities to diagnose different health conditions New insights continue to emerge about “junk DNA” (aka, non-coding DNA). For pathologists and clinical laboratories,...

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Wastewater Analysis Continues to be an Effective Tool for Tracking Deadly Infectious Diseases in Human Communities

In addition to viruses, wastewater analysis can also be used to detect the presence of chemical substances such as opioids Wastewater surveillance and analysis continues to be a useful tool for detecting the prevalence of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and...

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In Early Weeks of Flu Season, COVID-19 Patients Show Milder Symptoms as SARS-CoV-2 Continues to Evolve

Doctors report difficulty differentiating COVID-19 from other viral infections, impacting clinical laboratory test orders Because the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is in the same family of viruses that cause the common cold and influenza, virologists expected this...

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Google DeepMind Says Its New Artificial Intelligence Tool Can Predict Which Genetic Variants Are Likely to Cause Disease

Genetic engineers at the lab used the new tool to generate a catalog of 71 million possible missense variants, classifying 89% as either benign or pathogenic Genetic engineers continue to use artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning to develop research tools...

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Healthcare Strikes Around the World Challenge Pay and Poor Working Conditions

Millions of cancelled healthcare appointments and lengthy waits for care abound in UK, New Zealand, and in the US Strikes continue on multiple continents as thousands of healthcare workers walk off the job. Doctors, medical laboratory scientists, nurses, phlebotomists...

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Might Bacteria be Used to Identify Cancer Cells? Some Researchers Using Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering Techniques Say ‘Yes’

Cellular healthcare is an approach that goes beyond clinical laboratory testing to identify the location of specific cancer cells and aid in treatment decisions Advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering are leading to development of bacterial biosensors...

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Data Theft at 23andMe Leaks Genetic and Personal Information for Thousands, Targets Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese

Federal class action lawsuit looms as genetics company searches for what went wrong; a reminder to clinical laboratories of the importance of protecting patient information Several years ago, security experts warned that biotechnology and genomics company 23andMe,...

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Better CLIA Compliance Reviewing Top Deficiencies from CAP, COLA, A2LA, The Joint Commission, CMS and Looking to Future CLIA Reform

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