DiaSorin has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its LIAISON® Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) assays, including VCA IgM, VCA IgG, and EBNA IgG. The company introduced its first line of EBV ELISA tests in 1989, and currently serves r
Read MoreMilestone Medical has introduced PATHOS, a fully automated rapid microwave histoprocessor. The system was designed to allow the user to simultaneously process with speed and control different types of tissues with different thicknesses. It can pro
Read Moreby Carol Andrews My obsession with germs began when I was in the 10th grade and my biology class performed an experiment using samples taken from the gymnasium showers and locker rooms. When we viewed the bacteria from those samples under a micro
Read MoreBy Nicholas Borgert Louis Keith, MD, PhD Improved screening technologies and more accurate analyses are crucial weapons in the fight against breast cancer. Although highly curable when detected in the early stages, breast cancer cannot be diagno
Read MoreBy Jon Foskett Jon Foskett, MT (ASCP) Our lab at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Ill, recently reviewed the benefits of an automation platform for running our analyzers and processing our specimens, versus a system that would autovalidate test
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