Clinical Pathology

Below blog reprinted with permission from DoveMed. As a personal aside, my generation danced at junior high and high school dances to songs like "Little Red Corvette" and "Purple Rain". While perhaps we thought performers like Prince and...

Exciting news today from FDA with news of approval of first liquid biopsy test for use in non-small cell lung cancer.  The cobas EGFR test is already approved for use in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue. This new use is intended...

Curious to see how 30,000 practicing oncologists react to this and what the level of interest will be in what the VP has to say.  My general sense over these past few months among oncologists is a fair amount of skepticism to the initiative...

  This year the Pathology Horizons conference will be in Galway, Ireland 15-17 September 2016 The West of Ireland is abuzz with news that Star Wars is using filming locations along the Irish West coast. The area has also attracted the...

Some interesting news from Mikroscan last week getting in to the image analysis segment with partnerships with companies such as Indica Labs and Visiopharm for collaborative platforms with Mikroscan's Qumulus platform.  Mikroscan has...

As part of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), the National Institutes of Health will award $142 million over five years to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, to establish the world’s largest research-cohort biobank...