POSTS TAGGED AS pathology

Synthetic Prions

Prion Replication
It remains to be seen if autoimmune diseases are actually responses to self, when it’s at least possible they [MORE]

Cloud Imaging from GE

MRI
You might wonder if this piece is about how General Electric proposes to connect 500,000 of their imaging machines, or [MORE]

Roche’s Automated Staining Machine

ROCHE VENTANA HE-600
Hematoxylin, an extract derived from logwood, and eosine, a potassium salt, have been the workhorses for preparing pathology [MORE]

IBM’s Microfluidics Device for Oncologists

Microfluidics diagnostic chip
IBM’s search for new markets, after disappointing earnings in its more traditional fields, has turned [MORE]

Diabetic Fruit Flies

Fruit fly on right, genetically altered, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes.
Just about a century ago the “fly [MORE]

Smartphone/Microscope

Smartphone Microscope
With smartphone cameras now having super pixel capacity that was hardly imaginable more than a year or two [MORE]

“PAM50” Test Kit for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Personalized cancer treatment depends upon subclassifications of patients’ diseases, such as breast cancer’s sub groups: luminal A, luminal B, [MORE]

Topol on the Cancer Clinic of the Future

Eric Topol, M.D.
Eric Topol, M.D. is the editor of Medscape News and author of “The Creative Destruction of [MORE]

Accelerating Flow Cytometry

Flow cytometry uses a laser, cameras and deflectors to sort and count cells in a liquid stream such as [MORE]

The Human Gene Connectome

TLR3 Connectome
Why do no two people ever have exactly the same disease?  The answer is in their unique genomes and [MORE]

Scalable Automation for Small Labs

This piece, from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is not a “how-to” guide for small labs, but rather [MORE]

Automated Molecular Test for Antibiotic-Resistance in Germ Genes

Recently, IntilligentMDx (Cambridge, MA) announced its test for vancomycin-resistant pathogens to be used with Abbott’s automated m2000 real-time PCR [MORE]

RFID for Specimen Tracking

Over the past four years, the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology has worked out a series [MORE]

Automated Blood Counter

Combining digital image processing and a microscope, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany have developed [MORE]