Lifespan

This Is What 7 Smoker vs. Non-Smoker Identical Twins Look Like After Years Of Lighting Up

Identical twins may be born with nearly identical DNA, but their choices throughout life – including diet, environmental toxicity, and the chemicals they are exposed to – can alter their genetic expression and influence the way they look. Because identical twins are an excellent study to determine the effects dietary and lifestyle choices may have […]

How Detailed Is Drug Testing?

Whether you’ve received a new job offer or a recent driving ticket, drug testing is commonplace. Since the results make a difference between getting hired and taking your

How To Choose A Water Testing Laboratory For Your Water Well

Annual water testing will help you know what is in your well water. learn how to evaluate a well water testing laboratory.

How Can I Test My Water at Home with a Water Test Kit?

A home water test kit helps you discover what's in your drinking water. Water may look crystal clear in your glass, but that doesn't mean there aren't microscopic contaminants floating inside. John Woodard, our Master Water Specialist, discusses your water testing options so you can find out how clean your water really is<br>What is a home water test kit?<br>Home water test kits come in a variety of methods, styles, and shapes. They include simple test strips that you dunk in the…

Is This A ‘Dexter’s Laboratory’ Invention Or A Real One? Take The Test

Can you tell which are the real inventions and which are the ones that the writers of "Dexter's Laboratory" made up?

The ABCs of DNA: Should You Consider Genetic Testing?

As humans, we each have 46 chromosomes, containing about 20,000 genes. These sequences of letters serve as the body’s instructions. Genetic tests allow us to look at each sequence to see if there are variants, known as mutations. When present, mutations increase an individual’s risk for developing a disease, such as cancer. There are actually three different types of genetic

Do We Need Transgender-specific Reference Ranges for Common Laboratory Tests?

Laboratory test reference ranges need to become easier to interpret for all populations, including transgender people.

Tools to Help Physicians in Ordering and Interpreting Laboratory Tests, Part 1

In a previous article Collaboration between Clinicians and Laboratories Critical to New Healthcare Model I discussed the need for laboratorians to work directly with clinicians to develop appropriate protocols and decision support tools for not only ordering test but also in providing interpretation of the results. There are many examples and existing tools being used …

Experimental Architecture: Testing New Ideas in Living Laboratories

Why should architecture continue to look, feel and function almost exactly as it always has, in spite of a dramatically changing world? Sticking to established conventions is often the easy and ine…

How To Set Up a Licensed, Accredited Cannabis Testing Laboratory

As cannabis products have flown off shelves, cannabis testing demands have soared, making this market sector particularly attractive for investment. However, before diving in with thoughts of printing gold, there are some important steps to consider.<br>To help guarantee a successful lab launch, this Analytical Cannabis How to Guide breaks down the licensing requirements every lab owner should consider before opening their operation.

When will you die? A new blood test could reveal your lifespan

The Yale University researchers insist their measurements offer the most accurate and easy-to-interpret result of any study to date since they used factors measured in an annual physical.

Nanomaterial safety screening could become faster, cheaper with new laboratory test

The test, developed by UCLA researchers, could also be used to identify biomarkers for cancer and infectious diseases.

What You Need To Start Your Own Laboratory

Laboratories don't pop up out of nowhere—they are highly professional business enterprises that work in the scientific field. Like a medical clinic or doctor's...

When Are You Safe From a Drug Test? The Lifespan of Weed in Your Hair

Laboratory automation: benefits and challenges

Automation has transformed laboratories during the past 40 years. It has allowed laboratories to perform more tests — of a greater variety — with fewer staff and lower costs

How microchip imaging cytometry makes laboratory testing more economical, easy-to-use, and...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances addresses scientific and technical advances in the field of microchip imaging cytometry (MIC) and shows the applications of microchip imaging cytometry that may bring more economical, easy-to-use, and accessible healthcare to the public. Continue reading…

Articles & Experts : The Increase in Waived Testing In Physician Office Laboratories

Introduction Laboratory testing plays a critical role in health assessment, treatment, monitoring, and ultimately, the public’s health. Test results...

Is Mass Spectrometry Ready to Challenge ELISA for Medical Laboratory Testing Applications?

There is a growing role for mass spectrometry in clinical laboratory testing. However, the pace of adoption will depend on further technology enhancements, in tandem with new clinical applications yet to emerge from research laboratories.

FDA’s Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests — Where Do We Go Next?

Avalere Health is a DC-based healthcare consulting firm, specializing in strategy, policy, and data analysis for life sciences, health plans and providers.

Doctors' Mistakes in Genetic Test Orders Is Warning Signal to Pathologists and Clinical Laboratories

Almost one-third of medical laboratory test orders for complex gene tests contained mistakes in handling by ordering clinicians. This finding comes from a study by ARUP Laboratories, Inc.. The finding is an early warning flag for pathologists and clinical laboratory professionals that a gap exists between the availability of genetic tests and clinician knowledge of how and when to use them and how to interpret the results.