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Diagnostics
International Scientists Secure Quality in Molecular Diagnostics
April 14th, 2009
ARUP Laboratories and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) announced that a consensus guideline for a key laboratory method called qPCR (or quantitative polymerase chain reaction) was published by a group of international scientists representing the medical and research fields. qPCR is extensively used in diagnostic testing, from pathogen detection to cancer prognosis, and new studies using qPCR are published at an ever-increasing rate. The consensus guideline, the first of its kind for this technique, provides a minimum set of information that researchers must provide in order for their qPCR data to be considered for publication. The goal is to...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-04-14)
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