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Outside the Lab Regulation and standards

The Laboratory’s Role in Patient Safety

| Gareth McKeeman

What part does the laboratory play in patient safety and the patient experience?

Diagnostics Microscopy and imaging

Illuminating Progress in Microscope Lighting

| Klaus Willeke

What benefits can LED microscope light sources offer those who are still using halogen bulbs?

Diagnostics Omics

A Tipping Point for Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Cancer

| Cindy Perettie

Precision medicine is key to every aspect of modern oncology – and comprehensive genomic profiling can help

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Latest Articles

 Subspecialties Oncology

Precision Oncology Genomic Profiling: In-House or Centralized?

| Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Panel discussion highlights the benefits of keeping it close
Diagnostics Technology and innovation

Detecting Disease with Gold-Coated Biosensors

| Olivia Gaskill

Biosensors developed using nanoengineered porous gold may aid clinicians in early disease detection
Diagnostics Histology

Case of the Month

A 70-year-old woman with multiple medical problems presented with abdominal pain – but what is the most likely diagnosis?
Inside the Lab Technology and innovation

A New Dawn for Comprehensive Genomic Profiling with TruSight™ Oncology 500

| Sponsored by Illumina

Results from early access trials demonstrate the reproducibility and reliability of a pan-cancer next-generation sequencing assay
Outside the Lab Training and education

Do You Know?

| Ivan Damjanov

Are you an expert in pathology trivia? Try your hand at this quiz question!
Outside the Lab COVID-19

Brave New World

| Michael Schubert

The eighth edition of our COVID-19 pandemic diaries from pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals around the world
Inside the Lab Precision medicine

Prognostic Tumor Gene Test for Ovarian Cancer

| Olivia Gaskill

A tumor gene test has been developed that may predict poor survival in patients with ovarian cancer
Outside the Lab Profession

False Negatives

| Michael Schubert

As the calls for widespread COVID-19 testing increase, so too do fake over-the-counter tests – and results
Inside the Lab Precision medicine

Spatial Biomarkers and Immunotherapy Response

| Cliff Hoyt

To improve immunotherapy outcomes, we need to explore new biomarkers that offer spatial resolution in the tumor microenvironment
Inside the Lab Digital and computational pathology

Going Digital: Can Everything In Pathology Be Consolidated?

| Jane Rendall

Digital pathology is a means to an end – that’s why laboratory medicine professionals need to guide conversations about digitization and consolidation
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Upcoming Events

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Pathology Visions 2020

Virtual Meeting

Annual Meeting of the Digital Pathology Association
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NCRI Virtual Showcase - Submit an abstract by 13 September 2020

Taking place on 2-3 November 2020 the NCRI Virtual Showcase will feature a number of topical sessions, panel discussions...
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Lab Innovations

Birmingham, UK

The the UK’s talented science industry, which has already been in the spotlight so much this year, unite to share its...
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Pathology Visions 2020

Virtual Meeting

Annual Meeting of the Digital Pathology Association

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NCRI Virtual Showcase - Submit an abstract by 13 September 2020

Taking place on 2-3 November 2020 the NCRI Virtual Showcase will feature a number of topical sessions, panel discussions and proffered paper presentations covering the latest discoveries in: Big data and AI, Prevention and early detection, Immunology and immunotherapy, Living with and beyond cancer, and Cancer research and COVID-19. The programme will be mainly driven by the top-scoring abstracts submitted so there will be several presentation slots available for all research types falling within these topics.

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Lab Innovations

Birmingham, UK

The the UK’s talented science industry, which has already been in the spotlight so much this year, unite to share its innovations. The industry meet to launch their products to the UK’s lab professionals. Visitors will discover sustainable lab initiatives, secure the latest tech, join exciting conferences and explore new ways of future-proofing their labs.

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Upcoming Webinar

Diagnostics Biochemistry and molecular biology

A new day for myeloid genomic profiling: how NGS advancements are providing deeper insight with faster time to results

, 11am EDT / 5pm CEST | Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific

The use of genomic profiling for myeloid samples has accelerated in recent years due in part to increasing annotation of disease-associated biomarkers.
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Latest Application Notes

Increased DNA Yield from FFPE Samples Purified Using the Ionic® System Reduces PCR Duplicates in NGS

| Contributed by Purigen

Diagnostics Screening and monitoring

Five Reasons to implement LC-MS platforms for your laboratory developed tests

| Contributed by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Diagnostics Clinical care

Be Sure, Today and Tomorrow—LC-MS in Clinical Research

| Contributed by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Isotachophoresis Improves Nucleic Acid Extraction and Purification from FFPE Samples

| Contributed by Purigen

All Application Notes

Webinars on Demand

Diagnostics Companion diagnostics

Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of the PD-L1 Test with Multiplexing and Image Analysis

| Sponsored by Ultivue

Targeting of the programmed cell death protein (PD-1)/ programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) axis with checkpoint inhibitors has changed clinical practice in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Subspecialties Histology

Key advantages of Using Multiplex Immunofluorescence for Allograft Transplantation Research

| Sponsored by Akoya Biosciences

During this webinar, we will demonstrate a novel in situ detection strategy to better characterize the inflammatory burden during kidney and cardiac allograft rejection by targeting NK cells, T lymphocytes and macrophages.
Inside the Lab Software and hardware

Deployment of HALO AP at Neogenomics- Next Generation Digital Pathology Software for the Modern Anatomic Pathology Lab

| Sponsored by Indica Labs

Indica Labs is proud to introduce our HALO AP, state-of-the-art anatomic pathology software.
All Webinars

Most popular articles

1. Subspecialties COVID-19

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Summary

| Fred Plapp

Expert pathologist Fred Plapp offers a summary of the virus causing COVID-19, its effects, and the pandemic’s evolving status
2. Inside the Lab Genetics and epigenetics

The Diagnostic Power of DNA Methylation

| Bekim Sadikovic

Machine learning and DNA methylation could open up a new realm of diagnostic possibility
3. Inside the Lab Digital and computational pathology

Going Digital: Can Everything In Pathology Be Consolidated?

| Jane Rendall

Digital pathology is a means to an end – that’s why laboratory medicine professionals need to guide conversations about digitization and consolidation
4. Diagnostics Omics

A Tipping Point for Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Cancer

| Cindy Perettie

Precision medicine is key to every aspect of modern oncology – and comprehensive genomic profiling can help
5. Outside the Lab Profession

So You Want to Be a Pathologist…

| Nadeem Zafar and Jennifer Baccon

Making sure the best and brightest residents have the best pathology journey possible

Diagnostics

Microscopy and imaging

Illuminating Progress in Microscope Lighting

| Klaus Willeke

What benefits can LED microscope light sources offer those who are still using halogen bulbs?
Omics

A Tipping Point for Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Cancer

| Cindy Perettie

Precision medicine is key to every aspect of modern oncology – and comprehensive genomic profiling can help

Subspecialties

Oncology

Precision Oncology Genomic Profiling: In-House or Centralized?

| Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Panel discussion highlights the benefits of keeping it close
Histology

Gross Examination: Tweet of the Month

| Cory Nash

Cory Nash shares wise words on the value of every specimen

Inside the Lab

Technology and innovation

A New Dawn for Comprehensive Genomic Profiling with TruSight™ Oncology 500

| Sponsored by Illumina

Results from early access trials demonstrate the reproducibility and reliability of a pan-cancer next-generation sequencing assay
Precision medicine

Prognostic Tumor Gene Test for Ovarian Cancer

| Olivia Gaskill

A tumor gene test has been developed that may predict poor survival in patients with ovarian cancer

Outside the Lab

Regulation and standards

The Laboratory’s Role in Patient Safety

| Gareth McKeeman

What part does the laboratory play in patient safety and the patient experience?
Training and education

Do You Know?

| Ivan Damjanov

Are you an expert in pathology trivia? Try your hand at this quiz question!

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