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CONTENTS


Volume 26 Issue 4 June 2025


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OPINION Creating conditions for improvement


NEWS ARTICLES


Risk-based quality control: planning, defining, linking and evaluating


Congress in microcosm: examples of linking learning to the laboratory


Intelligent workflow for precision population health management


Power in partnership: exploring novel light transmission aggregometry


IBMS Congress 2025, see page 21


Evaluating scannability of slides with laser-printed barcodes


Polycystic ovary syndrome testing: a need for better guidance


Taking control of in-house genomic testing: faster NGS results


Metagenomics sequencing, see page 47


Metagenomics sequencing: a selection of current research interest


Infectious disease assays: Increasing efficiency and confidence


Beckman Coulter Diagnostics actively supports laboratories by focusing on the development of innovative assays and enhancing laboratory preparedness for future threats from infectious diseases. The company’s expertise in infectious diseases is global, thanks to sites in Ireland, France, the United States, and Israel. This year, at EuroMedLab 2025, held in Brussels from 18-22 May, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics was proud to further expand the DxI 9000 Analyser menu with new infectious disease assays, including those for hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections.


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DEFINING, LINKING AND EVALUATING TAKING CONTROL OF IN-HOUSE


GENOMIC TESTING: FASTER NGS RESULTS


INTELLIGENT WORKFLOW FOR PRECISION POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT


INFECTIOUS DISEASE ASSAYS: Increasing efficiency and confidence


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