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September 16, 2026 | Blog

The Cardiac Liquid Biopsy That Already Works, and What Holds It Up

Liquid biopsy in cardiovascular medicine is usually discussed as a future capability. In one corner of transplant medicine, it’s already…

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September 16, 2026 | Blog

RNA Is Not One Workflow: Why the Pre-Analytics Are Different

As the liquid biopsy field adopts new analytes beyond cfDNA only, one of the first asks we receive is for…

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September 14, 2026 | Blog

EDTA is Fine. Until the Sample Waits.

EDTA prevents clotting. That’s what an EDTA tube was built for. It was standardized as a blood anticoagulant in the…

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September 14, 2026 | Blog

DNA Is the Foundation. What Does Your Assay Need Next?

In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a cell-free DNA (cfDNA) liquid biopsy for the first time (ASCO,…

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September 9, 2026 | Blog

The Data Quality Problem That Starts Before the Assay

Life science companies rigorously scrutinize model architecture, training methods, assays, and data quality. Yet the physical condition of the sample…

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September 9, 2026 | Blog

Alzheimer’s Disease Blood-Based Testing Is Here. Now it Needs to Scale.

Blood-based testing for Alzheimer’s disease has moved quickly from research use toward clinical adoption. In 2025, Fujirebio’s Lumipulse® G pTau…

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September 4, 2026 | Blog

MASH Has Treatments Now. Finding the Right Patients Is the Bottleneck.

For most of the history of fatty liver disease, staging fibrosis was a prognostic exercise. It told a clinician how…

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September 3, 2026 | Blog

Flu Season Is a Stress Test for Your Molecular QC Program

Respiratory testing volume doesn’t ramp up gradually — it spikes. Flu A/B, RSV, SARS-CoV-2, and Strep A panels that ran…

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September 2, 2026 | Blog

Why Is Hematology QC Important? Your Questions Answered.

Ask most labs what hematology QC they use, and the honest answer is often “whatever came with the analyzer” or…

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July 27, 2026 | Blog

What Is Flow Cytometry QC, Really? Your Questions Answered.

Ask most labs what their flow cytometry QC actually verifies, and the honest answer is often just the instrument, not…

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July 22, 2026 | Blog

What Is Pre-Analytical Variability? Your Questions Answered.

Most laboratory error discussions focus on instruments, reagents and pipelines. But every assay shares one hidden dependency: the assumption that…

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July 21, 2026 | Blog

What Is Full-Process Molecular QC? Your Questions Answered.

Most molecular QC discussions focus on whether a control passed or failed. But every panel shares one hidden dependency: the…

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July 17, 2026 | Blog

Researchers deem Streck ARM-D Kit effective

In work recently published in the Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, a team of researchers shared the results of a…

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July 13, 2026 | Blog

Antimicrobial Resistance: “The Silent Pandemic”

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are the leading cause of mortality from infection. This is primarily due to growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR),…

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July 10, 2026 | Blog

Principles of flow cytometry

Flow cytometers are valuable in the laboratory because of their ability to rapidly analyze thousands of normal cells while being…

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July 9, 2026 | Blog

ILQC: How to earn the trust of your clients and their patients

In laboratory medicine, trust is everything. It is estimated that more than 70% of medical decisions are made using laboratory…

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July 6, 2026 | Blog

Why does stabilization matter?

Human blood is packed with genetic information found in circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (RNA). Liquid biopsy takes…

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June 30, 2026 | Blog

How can nucleic acids predict disease?

Liquid biopsy is a diagnostic technique where bodily fluids are examined for biomarkers that suggest disease. In recent years, liquid…

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June 25, 2026 | Blog

Benefits of sickle testing in athletes

Sickle cell trait (SCT) runs under the radar most of the time, yet it can be deadly serious. People who…

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June 22, 2026 | Blog

The what ifs of body fluid testing

You might not think you need a manual body fluid control, but you know that the lab environment can be…

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June 15, 2026 | Blog

Do you know the 3 Cs of QC?

Do you know the 3 Cs of manual body fluid QC?When you’re in need of a superior quality control for…

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June 5, 2026 | Blog

Ambler Classification of β-lactamases

The Ambler Classification system, based on amino acid homology, is the most commonly used method to classify β-lactamases. β-lactamases are…

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May 29, 2026 | Blog

CAP Manual Body Fluid Testing Guide

Manual body fluid testing is often overlooked with the adoption of automated systems. Streck recently reviewed the newest CAP critical…

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May 25, 2026 | Blog

Cleared assays advance liquid biopsy

The goal of liquid biopsy moved closer to reality in past weeks. Liquid biopsy is the use of a bodily…

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May 21, 2026 | Blog

Top 4 questions about SICKLEDEX

Streck listened to customers and has made improvements to the Instructions for Use (IFU) for SICKLEDEX®, improving the customer experience…

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May 21, 2026 | Blog

Key development for liquid biopsy research

A recent publication from the BloodPAC group seeks to standardize pre-analytical variables for liquid biopsies. Titled “Minimum Technical Data Elements…

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May 11, 2026 | Blog

Understanding diabetes A1c tests

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people worldwide with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980…

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May 6, 2026 | Blog

Testing irreplaceable body fluids

When body fluid tests are ordered, we typically think of blood, saliva and urine. Although these body fluids are commonly…

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May 1, 2026 | Blog

Quality control in the laboratory

Quality Control (QC) in a laboratory setting is critical to ensure the accuracy of results used to deliver diagnostic information…

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