Feb 23, 2015
Big data now seems to be everywhere. Google search queries are used to predict flu outbreaks and airline statistics or mined to determine the best hour of which day to book plane tickets. Clinical laboratories can also benefit from these trends. Given the emerging importance of reproducible data analysis pipelines,...
Feb 18, 2015
Hemoglobin A1c is widely used to monitor glycemic control and is now recommended for use in the diagnosis of diabetes. Although hemoglobin A1c has high reliability compared to the oral glucose tolerance test, there are certain settings in which such testing may be problematic and there is a growing interest in...
Feb 9, 2015
Although hemoglobin A 1 C has high reliability , there a re certain settings in which hemoglobin A1C testing is thought to be problematic. 1 , 5 - anhydroglucitol or 1,5 - deoxyglucose is a monosaccharide originating mainly fr om foods and closely resembles glucose in structure , but is usually excreted by the kidneys.
Feb 3, 2015
Prenatal testing using blood specimens rather than more invasive sampling has been successfully used for common chromosome disorders and for clinically significant copy number variations . H owever , detecting single gene disorders which are caused by mutations remains an analytical challenge.
Feb 3, 2015
Human saliva has been increasingly used for biomarker development to allow noninvasive detection of diseases. Extracellular RNA was discovered in saliva about 10 years ago, and since then the nature, origin , and characterization of salivary RNA have been actively pursued.