Sep 9, 2022 | International Laboratory News, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing, Precision Medicine
Officials also worry about diminishing smallpox vaccinations, which offered people protection against the infectious disease Monkeypox challenges from the current outbreak have dogged public health agencies even though the disease was first identified more than 50 years ago. That is because the virus has found new avenues of infection. These developments will be relevant for the nation’s clinical laboratories, which are often the first healthcare providers to confirm a suspected case is...
Aug 31, 2022 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing, Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing, Precision Medicine
Viral reservoir could be behind persistence, says study, which also suggests a blood biomarker could be found for clinical laboratory testing Microbiologists and virologists working closely with physicians treating long COVID-19 patients will gain new insights in a study that found coronavirus spike protein in COVID-19 patients’ blood up to 12 months after diagnosis. The researchers believe their findings could be used to develop a clinical laboratory biomarker for long COVID-19. Researchers...
Aug 24, 2022 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Resources, Laboratory Testing, Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing, Precision Medicine
Clinical laboratories continue to report positive COVID-19 tests for individuals that have been vaccinated and even previously infected with the same variant of the coronavirus Researchers across the globe continue to study the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and its many variants. Their goals are to curb the spread of the disease and develop new therapies and treatments for optimal patient outcomes. Now, a study conducted by scientists at the University of Missouri (UM) provides deeper insight into...
Aug 19, 2022 | Digital Pathology, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing, Precision Medicine
Findings could lead to new clinical laboratory involvement in diagnostics targeted at overweight patients Does the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus make us fat so it can better take over our bodies? It sounds like the plot for a science fiction horror movie! But a team of scientists in the Pacific Northwest say that is exactly what the virus does, and their findings could lead to clinical laboratories playing a role in evaluating how the virus highjacks fat cells to aid in its invasion of humans....
Aug 17, 2022 | International Laboratory News, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing, Precision Medicine
Study may lead to clinical laboratory involvement in repurposing hormonal treatments to prevent cancer treatment resistance Diagnosing prostate cancer and identifying which patients have aggressive forms of the cancer has been a challenge. But new insights into how aggressive cancers become resistant to drug therapies—and the discovery of a way to repurpose hormonal treatment to block or slow aggressive prostate cancer—may lead to clinical laboratories monitoring the progress of patients’...
Aug 12, 2022 | International Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Testing, Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing, Precision Medicine
Understanding why some mutations impair normal bodily functions and contribute to cancer may lead to new clinical laboratory diagnostics New insight into the human genome may help explain the ageing process and provide clues to improving human longevity that can be useful to clinical laboratories and researchers developing cancer diagnostics. A recent study conducted at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom, suggests that the speed of DNA errors in genetic mutations may...
