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As 2017 comes to a close, ASCLS would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of ASCLS eNewsBytes a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 9.
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Pharmaceutical Processing
From Aug. 29: Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and inhalers a day, the 53-year-old had to stop working and scale back doing the thing she loved best, horseback riding.
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Live Science
From Oct. 24: In a rare case, a woman contracted a potentially deadly bacterial infection while on a 12-hour flight from Japan to Germany, according to a new report.
Called meningococcal disease, this bacterial infection is generally transmitted only through close contact, for example, by kissing or living in close quarters with someone who is sick, according to the World Health Organization.
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Streck, Inc.
Learn how customized clinical samples provided by Conversant Bio in Streck Cell-Free DNA BCT® have helped accelerate their cancer research for one of their biotech clients. Conversant Bio is on a mission to develop a liquid biopsy test for early cancer detection in order to increase cancer survivor rates. They were able to buy an additional 48 hours to process samples due to the use of Streck Cell-Free DNA BCT®.
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Medical News Today
From Oct. 24: It is common for cancer to unexpectedly recur after a patient is cleared of the disease. New research sheds light on why this happens, zooming in on the body's immune system.
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CNN
From April 4: For decades, scientists have sought to create red blood cells in the lab — a "holy grail" that some hoped could ease regional blood shortages, especially for people with rare blood types.
But now British researchers say they have overcome a major barrier that has plagued many scientists: creating enough red cells to fill a blood bag. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Salk Institute via Phys.Org
From Jan. 10: Salk Institute scientists have solved the atomic structure of a key piece of machinery that allows HIV to integrate into human host DNA and replicate in the body, which has eluded researchers for decades. The findings describing this machinery, known as the "intasome," appear Jan. 6 in Science and yield structural clues informing the development of new HIV drugs.
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Performance, reporting, and QA recommendations for identification of cultured microorganisms take the guesswork out of introducing MALDI-TOF into your laboratory. CLSI’s M58 includes recommendations for end-user verification and workflow integration, along with best practices for quality and safety.
Visit clsi.org/m58/ for more information.
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STAT
From Oct. 3: Health officials are reporting another record increase in infections from three sexually transmitted diseases.
More than 2 million new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the United States last year — the most ever.
The diseases are treatable with antibiotics.
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Technical University of Denmark via Lab Manager
From June 27: To win the war against antibiotic-resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance genes. Further, they try to identify how the genes are introduced to disease-causing bacteria — so-called pathogens. Identifying where resistance genes come from and how they spread somewhat compares to finding patient zero in an outbreak, which is not an easy task.
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University at Buffalo via Infection Control Today
From Aug. 29: The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close. The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort antibiotics — has left clinicians without an effective means of treatment for the superbug. But in a new study, University at Buffalo researchers have assembled a team of three antibiotics that, together, are capable of eradicating the deadly bacterium.
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Washington University School of Medicine via Lab Manager
From Sept. 26: There's good fat and bad fat in our bodies. The good fat helps burn calories, while the bad fat hoards calories, contributing to weight gain and obesity. Now, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a way to convert bad, white fat into good, brown fat, at least in mice.
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This webinar series provides an introduction for laboratory technologists. Participants develop the knowledge and skills necessary to perform and interpret antimicrobial susceptibility and report results.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests. Learn more
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Medical News Today
From Sept. 26: A new study has investigated how mothers and fathers cause new genetic mutations in their children, and how some of these mutations may lead to negative outcomes.
Characteristics that we inherit from our parents — starting with very basic features such as eye color or hair texture — shape not just our identity, but also the state of our health, both earlier and later in life.
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