Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...

The following items will be discussed in this panel presentation: How samples are collected and processed to be tested in reference laboratories The Best practices in collecting respiratory (swab) ...

PANACEA, Fla. (WCTV) — Hurricane Hermine destroyed the ‘Living Dock’ at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in 2016. Now, staff and volunteers at the lab are working to rebuild the dock after Michael. Cypress ...

WATERFORD, MI -- It begins when a medical professional sticks an unfortunately long Q-tip-like swab into your nose or mouth. It ends when a machine using sophisticated software analyzes the extracted ...

The New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories is ramping up testing for the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus.>> Download the FREE WMUR appTwo cases of the potentially deadly strain of virus have been ...

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were lucky in their latest laboratory accident that had the potential to expose its workers to the deadly Ebola virus, according to results ...

Scientists hope to make mice comfier in their lab homes, not just to boost the rodents' well-being but also to make them more humanlike and better models for drug studies. The problem, they say, is ...

After weeks of offering online marine science lessons and tours through its species catalog, the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab plans to reopen its doors. Starting Monday, the aquarium in Panacea will allow ...

Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army’s biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and ...

A Texas laboratory worker processing specimens from last fall's anthrax attacks under a federal contract has become ill with the skin form of anthrax, the first domestic case of the disease since ...