When doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals take samples of blood and tissue, they send them to medical lab technicians for analysis. Also called clinical lab technicians, these medical ...

Laboratory technicians perform testing and analysis functions in their work to support doctors, scientists and other clinical laboratory assistants and specialists, notes the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

Ellen Jo Baron, PhD, knows how to improvise. As director of the clinical microbiology lab for Stanford's medical center, she has access to state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities. But as a volunteer ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the fight against omicron, there’s no fighting the long lines at COVID testing sites. Behind all that testing, though, are labs under pressure to get results. “We've got an ...