Patients are usually unaware of what goes on behind the scenes after having their blood or tissue samples taken. Medical lab scientists are the unsung heroes who analyse the samples and produce our ...

Sloppy lab practices by an experienced but overworked scientist rushing to get to a noon meeting is likely how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cross-contaminated a specimen of a benign ...

Explore how lab report reference ranges shape our understanding of health, emphasizing the complexity behind the concept of ...

A young lab technician in France developed a rare and fatal brain disease after she was accidentally exposed to prions, the infectious proteins that cause "mad cow disease," according to a new report ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory failed to properly track cocaine, amphetamines, opium and black tar heroin that undergoes forensic evidence testing and other uses, leaving ...

The Montana State Crime Lab is now testing more than double the number of drug samples it did six years ago, and has cut in half the turnaround time on test results. The state crime lab tests and ...

A Middletown-area lab that tested thousands of drinking water samples for public systems, including utilities in Steelton and York, has been suspended by the state Department of Environmental ...

The Covid-19 testing lab at Sant Gadgebaba Amravati University has started its operations from Monday with the first lot of 24 throat swab samples it received from the Covid Hospital here. “To begin ...