Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

Learn about the many tests and examinations your blood sample undergoes in a lab. Giving a blood sample during a doctor’s visit is a common procedure. Discover the dizzying array of automated tests ...

Scientists used donor stem cells to grow red blood cells in a laboratory. A clinical trial of these cells is underway to see if they last longer in the body compared to regular donor blood. Lab-grown ...

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For the first time, human patients have received transfusions of blood cells that were grown from stem cells in a lab. A clinical trial investigating the safety of the procedure is currently underway, ...

Join internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, as she donates blood and follows it behind the scenes. Following is a partial transcript (note that errors are possible): ...

A San Diego company has earned FDA clearance for a device that could make blood testing easier. Truvian Health’s device, TruVerus, uses a small amount of blood to return routine tests quickly. The ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The human body is an intricate network of electrical signals, with every cell, tissue, and organ relying on precise electrical communication to function properly. At the heart of ...

Blood culture is the most widely used diagnostic tool for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. It is the most important way to diagnose the etiology of bloodstream infections and has major ...

In September 2015, Dr. Dena Marrinucci set out to perfect a tabletop device that could rapidly test a small amount of blood, returning results for more than 30 routine tests in under 30 minutes. If ...

A Filipino expert in laboratory medicine has continued to draw recognition locally and abroad for work in Immunohematology ...