CLIA Announces New 2024 Updates

Changes to CLIA requirements for Analytical Quality may affect your proficiency testing and quality control programs. Effective July 11, 2024, these requirement amendments mark the bigg…

Stabilization

ARM-D Kits for wastewater workflow

Streck exhibited and presented at the globally represented European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Copenhagen, Denmark…

News/Events

Need for medical lab scientists soars

The overall shortages seen throughout the medical professions is acute in the case of medical laboratory professionals, such as Medical Laboratory Tec…

Molecular

WBE: Which method is fastest?

Sample processing for measuring SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater involves sample preparation, sample concentration, RNA extraction and RNA measurement met…

Quality Control

Athletes must be tested for SCT

Though it has raised alarm in the athletic community, exercising with sickle cell trait (SCT) is generally safe. With proper awareness and education, …

Molecular

Preventing infections in dialysis patients

A recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines the challenges faced by 800,000 people in the United States who a…

Molecular

CDC updates AR investment map

AR occurs when germs are unresponsive to drugs and other chemotherapies designed to kill them. AR threatens to return the world to a time when even si…

Molecular

Partnerships increase WBE testing success

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) has transformed the landscape in tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants at the community level, according to S…

Molecular

Rapid sepsis testing is imperative

Sepsis, a life-threatening progression of organ failure, is caused by improper host response to an infection. These infections can be bacterial, funga…

Molecular

Report says WBE worth investment

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reviewed the use of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) during the COV…