Patients are usually unaware of what goes on behind the scenes after having their blood or tissue samples taken. Medical lab scientists are the unsung heroes who analyse the samples and produce our ...
Sloppy lab practices by an experienced but overworked scientist rushing to get to a noon meeting is likely how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cross-contaminated a specimen of a benign ...
A young lab technician in France developed a rare and fatal brain disease after she was accidentally exposed to prions, the infectious proteins that cause "mad cow disease," according to a new report ...
The Montana State Crime Lab is now testing more than double the number of drug samples it did six years ago, and has cut in half the turnaround time on test results. The state crime lab tests and ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory failed to properly track cocaine, amphetamines, opium and black tar heroin that undergoes forensic evidence testing and other uses, leaving ...
A technology used by more than 3,000 hospitals across the globe for delivering medications, blood and other lab samples is at a significant risk of being hacked, CyberScoop reported Aug. 3.
A Middletown-area lab that tested thousands of drinking water samples for public systems, including utilities in Steelton and York, has been suspended by the state Department of Environmental ...