A new approach to colorectal cancer screening may increase both accuracy and patient compliance

The growing demand for multiple biomarker analysis is presenting diagnostics labs with many new challenges – do you outsource or adapt? And if you keep testing in-house, is the one test–one drug approach even sustainable? Possibly not…

How can pathologists stay relevant? By taking an integrative approach to pathology education…

A new approach to epigenetic control may allow precise spatiotemporal targeting of disease-controlling mechanisms

Michael Laposata, co-author of the IoM report, speaks out…

Sitting Down With… Robert A. Weinberg, founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

This series of sculptures by artist Rogan Brown, laser cut from paper and hand mounted into three-dimensional sculptural compositions, is an attempt to depict the diversity and beauty of the vast colony of organisms that live in and on the human body.

We can argue about how many diagnostic errors happen each year, but we can’t deny that there are too many of them. And when one of those errors is ours, denial is especially inappropriate – but how many of us feel comfortable about a confessional with the patient? In the first installment of a two-part feature, we examine the difficulties around disclosure and communication of diagnostic errors.

Financial and personnel considerations for bringing mass spectrometry into the clinical laboratory

Laboratory professionals need to be involved in the total testing process to improve patient outcomes and avoid harm