Inside the Lab

Novel mathematical tools show promise in predicting ovarian cancer patient survival and sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy.

Why it is vital to define critical values and establish standard procedures for reporting them.

Helpings labs to understand their role in clinical care, and to impact and improve patient outcomes.

In the era of personalized medicine, the use of reference materials is more important now than ever.

Bioinformatics gets a boost from educational and training initiatives

The preanalytical phase is subject to more error than any other part of the testing cycle – what can we do to improve it?

The next step in cancer research may be the use of bioinformatics to analyze large amounts of RNA

A blood test to quickly decide if a viral or bacterial infection is the culprit causing disease could aid the quest to cut down on antibiotic misuse.

Mislabeling and contamination of cell lines in labs are well-known issues, but often nothing is done about them; journal publishers are getting tough

Many hospitals sequence patients’ tumor genomes to personalize their treatment – but without sequencing normal tissue, this can harm rather than heal.