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Through-the-Wall Blood Sampling Method to Minimize Sleep Disruption in Clinical Settings
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2025
Here, we present a through-the-wall, minimally invasive method to sample blood during sleep in clinical settings.
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Laboratory Techniques Used to Maintain and Differentiate Biotypes of Vibrio cholerae Clinical and Environmental Isolates
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2017
This manuscript describes proper Vibrio cholerae maintenance techniques in addition to a series of biochemical assays, collectively utilized for quick and reliable differentiation between clinical and environmental V. cholerae biotypes in a laboratory setting.
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Fertility Preservation Through Oocyte Vitrification: Clinical and Laboratory Perspectives
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2021
Oocyte cryopreservation is recognized by several international scientific societies as the gold standard for fertility preservation in postpubertal women. Appropriate clinical and laboratory strategies ensure maximum efficacy, efficiency, and safety of fertility preservation treatments.
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A Community-based Stress Management Program: Using Wearable Devices to Assess Whole Body Physiological Responses in Non-laboratory Settings
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2018
Stress is an unavoidable and persistent component of life and holistic approaches for its management are being considered. A standardized methodology was created to demonstrate the feasibility of a breath-based stress management protocol that can be used with commercially available portable technology.
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Establishment of a Clinic-based Biorepository
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2017
Cutaneous tumors are often discarded following Mohs micrographic surgery. A protocol is described here that enables clinical support staff to effectively process and store cutaneous tumor (e.g., squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma) samples for downstream laboratory applications without interfering with clinical operations.
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Quality control procedures and calibrated instruments support accuracy and reproducibility by checking that laboratory measurements and analytical systems perform reliably. These safeguards are important because results may influence diagnosis, treatment selection, or disease monitoring. Together with trained personnel, they help distinguish meaningful biological findings from errors caused by inconsistent methods or instrument performance.
Biosafety practices help maintain a controlled environment while biological specimens are collected, processed, and analyzed. They support safe laboratory operations and protect the reliability of work involving potentially relevant biological material. In a clinical laboratory setting, biosafety is therefore part of responsible testing practice, alongside quality control and the use of calibrated equipment.
These methods examine biological specimens through different analytical approaches. Microscopy provides observations that can be examined directly, culture supports analysis of biological growth, molecular testing examines molecular information, and biochemical analysis evaluates biochemical characteristics. Using appropriate methods allows laboratory personnel to connect cellular, microbial, or physiological observations with questions about health and disease.
Reliability depends on coordinated control of the laboratory environment, trained personnel, suitable analytical methods, quality control procedures, calibrated instruments, and biosafety practices. No single component guarantees dependable findings. Their combined use supports consistent specimen processing and analysis, making results more useful for patient care, epidemiological surveillance, and biomedical research.
The workflow begins with specimen collection, followed by processing and analysis using an appropriate method, such as microscopy, culture, molecular testing, or biochemical analysis. Trained personnel perform these activities under controlled conditions, with quality control and calibrated instruments supporting dependable results. The resulting information can then contribute to clinical or research decisions.
Clinical laboratories also contribute to treatment selection, disease monitoring, epidemiological surveillance, and biomedical research. Their findings can connect biological observations with patterns of disease in populations, track changes relevant to an individual’s condition, and support development or evaluation of laboratory methods. This broad role makes laboratory work relevant to both biology and health care.