Lab testing provides doctors with essential information to help them diagnose and treat disease. Here’s what happens behind the scenes after you roll up your sleeve for a blood draw.
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The proteins that cover nanoparticles are essential to understanding how they work in the body. Across 17 proteomics facilities in the US, less than 2% of the identified proteins were identical.
A medical genomics professor reflects on how lab simulations offer some advantages for student learning, but developing the muscle memory of performing hands-on lab work is important.
The microbiologist who directs the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University explains all the biosafety precautions in place that help him feel safer in the lab than out.
Scientists get up close and personal with deadly pathogens to give doctors the tools they need to treat people sickened by germs. The key is keeping the researchers – and everyone around them – safe.
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Professor of Physiological Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor of Radiology, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Medical Genomics, University of Toronto
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and Chair of Microbiology, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Medical Laboratory Science, Rush University