Dec 29, 2014
Biobanking for clinical or research purposes includes the collection, processing, storage and analysis of biological specimens. It is now well-recognized that biobanking involves a complex array of technical, ethical, and regulatory considerations.
Dec 23, 2014
Kidney cancer is among the ten most frequently occurring cancers in the Western world and its incidence has been steadily rising each year. In the absence of symptoms, about 30% of patients with renalcell carcinomas are diagnosed with disease already in the metastatic stage.
Dec 15, 2014
Over the past decade genomic testing has emerged as a clinical tool available in multiple hospital and independent laboratories across the United States. In the November 2014 issue of Clinical Chemistry, an opinion article titled "Clinical Genomics: When Whole Genome Sequencing Is like a Whole-body CT Scan" framed the...
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014