Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) describe cancers resulting from abnormal cells in the bone marrow. The abnormal bone marrow cells generate defective blood cells, which die earlier than normal blood ...

The UAB Flow Cytometry Lab is home to a staff of medical laboratory professionals who perform complex testing using state-of-the-art flow cytometry equipment. This testing, through research, education ...

A flow cytometric score developed in 2012, which uses 4 parameters to distinguish low-grade myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) from nonclonal cytopenias, is simple and practical for screening patients ...

A study presented at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, discussed the first report of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to test for minimal ...

One huge reason why the world of medicine hasn’t yet found “the cure” for hard-to-treat malignancies like acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and many other forms of cancer is that the world of science is ...

Around the same time, Mack Fulwyler, an engineer working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, needed to separate particles, so he drew on existing techniques to create droplets to separate cells from a ...

Immunophenotyping helps doctors diagnose and classify specific blood cell cancers, like leukemia and lymphoma, as well as other diseases. Immunophenotyping is a lab test doctors use to identify and ...

Flow cytometry can be used to measure a number of characteristics of a population of cells and refers to the process of passing cells individually through a single or series of laser beams adjacent to ...