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Today's Clinical Lab March 2023 print issue

"Toward Standardization"

Miriam Bergeret, MSc

The Today's Clinical Lab March 2023 issue features expert insights on pathology & infectious disease

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Standardize Your Flow Cytometry Workflow by Automating Sample Preparation

Today's Clinical Lab

Join Today's Clinical Lab and Tim Larson, PhD, to discover how your lab can incorporate fully traceable and time-saving clinical flow cytometry workflows

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Address Your Clinical Flow Cytometry Challenges with an Automated and Standardized Workflow

Today's Clinical Lab

Download this infographic to discover seven innovations that can help you improve and standardize clinical flow cytometry assays

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Can Clinical Flow Cytometry Gating Analysis Be Automated?

Zahraa Chorghay, PhD

Unsupervised and supervised algorithms can improve the efficiency and reproducibility of flow cytometric analysis

Lab personnel, seated near a microscope, examines immunohistochemistry slide with her gloved hand, prior to placing the cancer specimen under the microscope.

Can Immunohistochemistry Assays Be Standardized for Cancer Detection?

Zahraa Chorghay, PhD

New synthetic immunohistochemistry reference standards could enable semiquantitative tumor analysis for emerging immunotherapies

5 Assays for Testing Adoptive Cell Therapy Quality

Daniel Millard, PhD

The benefits and limitations of five popular cell viability assays

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Moving Clinical Flow Cytometry Forward

Zahraa Chorghay, PhD

A standardized approach to flow cytometry boosts accuracy, efficiency, and productivity

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How Can Clinical Flow Cytometry Have Better Reproducibility? (Survey)

Help us better understand pain points in clinical flow cytometry

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Want to Analyze Blood Faster and Reduce Turnaround Times?

Zahraa Chorghay, PhD

From cell counters to image analysis systems, automating hematology workflows alleviates staffing issues and reduces turnaround times

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International Reproducibility Efforts in Clinical Flow Cytometry

Zahraa Chorghay, PhD

How can we achieve interlaboratory standardization of flow cytometry assays?

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MALDI-TOF MS: An Evolving Tool in Clinical Diagnostics

Jake Moskowitz, DVM, PhD

Advances in MALDI-TOF MS have significantly expanded its use in high-throughput diagnostic labs

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Empowering Pathologists by Bringing Reference Standards to IHC

Steve Bogen, MD, PhD

The Consortium for Analytic Standardization in IHC is dedicated to improving IHC test accuracy and reproducibility

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New Detailed Immune-Profiling Method Uses Only DNA from Blood

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

A novel immune-profiling method potentially allows for individualized prediction of outcomes in immunotherapy patients

Highlights from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics’s 69th conference

An Innovative Year for Clinical Mass Spectrometry

María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD

Highlights from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics’s 69th conference

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Advancing Cell Therapy

Guy L. Regnard, PhD

Flow cytometry has proven to be an invaluable tool for developing new cell therapies

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Exploring Extracellular Vesicles with Flow Cytometry

Morgana Moretti, PhD

Flow cytometry-based approaches can advance our understanding of the diagnostic significance of extracellular vesicles

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Flow Virometry: A New Tool for Studying Viruses

Nischal PM, PhD

Flow virometry offers researchers a way to identify, analyze, and sort individual viral particles

The Resolve Biosciences Molecular Cartography™ technology provided a better understanding of subcellular gene regulation and enabled scientists to study molecular pathology behind SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Get Ready: Spatial Biology Is Coming to Clinical Labs

Jason T. Gammack

Spatial biology tools being validated in research labs will likely soon become important platforms for clinical labs

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Complete Blood Counts at the Bedside

Catherine Crawford-Brown, MSc, MScComm

New hematology point-of-care devices perform as well as clinical lab testing

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The Evolution of Clinical Flow Cytometry

Erica Tennenhouse, PhD

A look at the technological advances that have simplified the use of flow cytometry in clinical labs