Future Laboratory

The future of clinical laboratory genomics.

Sierra Leone laboratory systems – now and future

The impact of the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Mano River Union region, which includes Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea,1 is a direct indicator of the acute limitations in national healthcare systems and the critical role played by diagnostic and public health laboratories. Despite having a Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, Sierra Leone lacked the capacity to provide ...

The clinical immunology laboratory of the future.

The clinical immunology laboratory assumes the responsibility of providing a complete array of analytical measurements for the diagnosis and management of patients with dysfunction of the humoral (antibody, complement) and cellular (T/B cells, phagocyte) immune system. To identify trends in the activities of the clinical immunology laboratory of the future, I first define the current status of ...

Present and future of the autoimmunity laboratory.

At present, autoimmunity laboratories are very dynamic owing to the constant and increasing availability of new tests, mainly due to the detection of new autoantibodies. The main characteristic of the autoimmunity laboratory and the one that differentiates it from other laboratories that use immunoassays as basic techniques is that it determines antibodies (autoantibodies) and not antigens. For...

Medicine unplugged: the future of laboratory medicine.

We live amidst a digital revolution occurring in mobile healthcare. The remarkable and explosive progress in wireless medical devices has been catalyzed by the software of apps and the hardware of “adds.” Wireless diagnostics tools such as the AliveCor smartphoneenabled electrocardiograph, the vScan pocket ultrasound, and the CellScope smartphone-based otoscope are poised to deliver diagnostic ...