Copyright © 2013 Mina Hur et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clinical laboratories have a vital role to play in translating research findings into clinically useful measurements. This involves assessment of new...

We present a lab that enables students to test the role of genes involved in the regulation of lateral roots growth in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, students design an experiment that follows the effects of the hormone auxin on the stimulation of genes involved in the formation of lateral root initials. These genes, known as lateral organ boundary domain containing protein (LBD) g...

In their introduction to The laboratorv revolution in medicine the editors make a relatively unassailable case for the significance of the laboratory in modern medicine. Although "revolutionary" is possibly an unhelpful term, they argue that the "transition" to laboratory medicine was as revolutionary as "the transition to hospital medicine which preceded it" (p. 3). To substantiate this claim ...

The role of national health laboratories in support of public health response has expanded beyond laboratory testing to include a number of other core functions such as emergency response, training and outreach, communications, laboratory-based surveillance and data management. These functions can only be accomplished by an efficient and resilient national laboratory network that includes publi...