Parents often ask about blood tests during routine pediatric visits, but pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies that healthy children rarely need them. She shares some of the criteria for ...

Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

Whether it’s a routine check-up or an unexpected hospitalization, follow-up care can often lead to the need for additional services, such as filling a prescription, getting lab work done or diagnostic ...

If you’ve worked in a bio or chem lab, you’ve probably found yourself handling all manner of plastic. Test tubes, fixtures, clamps — there’s a cavalcade of this stuff that fattens up the order books ...

Research shows that 77 percent of lab professionals now use public AI tools alongside their ELN. For many, this is not driven by policy decisions, but by necessity. Governed tools do not yet support ...

Science is a process of discovery. In the laboratory, students conduct experiments, solve problems, and use the scientific method. Collectively, a laboratory experience should be experiential with ...

When the novel coronavirus first hit, academic, industrial, and government laboratories around the world faced a string of tough operating decisions and little time to make them. Some shut down, some ...

The first anniversary of Michigan Tech’s COVID-19 testing lab comes during the annual Medical Laboratory Professionals Week. One year ago, if you’d asked the people responsible for setting up the ...