Japanese investigators from the RIKEN Research Institute are reporting in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they created fluorescent DNA probes that can attach to a specific DNA gene sequence, and detect...

The Technology Showcase and briefing held on June 21, 2007 was declared a huge success by attendees and exhibitors. The Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics each year devotes a day in June to highlight the...

Futurescape of Pathology lectures now available here. I think one the resident CAP travel awardees, Dr. Jochen "Joe" Lennerz summed up the conference the best as below:     "“Be ready to assume a little risk” and...

From Apollo Telemedicine: "IBM and Apollo PACS Inc. have implemented one of the most comprehensive pathology digital imaging systems in North America, at The Hospital for Sick Children, enabling clinicians to collaborate more...

Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed me or called with their commendations and criticisms of the blog.  The blog will post 3 days a week.  This will allow me to keep a cache of current ideas and innovative topics while also allowing...

Aperio has created their own format called BigTIFF and neatly offering the format into the public domain.  To showcase the power of BigTIFF image resolution, Aperio has releaseed the first terapixel image.  The image shows 225...