Mar 24, 2014
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic progressive autoimmune disorder with complex, polygenic susceptibility. Environmental factors which are poorly defined also contribute to the pathogenesis. This disease is characterized by lymphocyte infiltration into the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, leading to inflammation...
Mar 17, 2014
The latest incarnation of polymerase chain reaction, Digital PCR, takes three decades of development in enzyme chemistry and assay design and applies them with formidable precision and sensitivity.
Mar 10, 2014
Hemoglobin A1C is one of the analytes most commonly measured in clinical laboratories in patients with diabetes mellitus. Physicians use Hemoglobin A1C to monitor long-term glycemic control, adjust therapy, and predict complications of diabetes. It was recently added as a criterion for diagnosis of diabetes.
Mar 6, 2014
Although standardization of barcodes and label formats has lowered the number of mislabeled specimens in clinical laboratories, it remains a potential source of pre-analytical error. Published error rates of mislabeled specimens range up to as high as just over 1 percent.
Mar 1, 2014