Maintaining a blood product supply is essential to optimal patient care; however, daily use is
difficult to anticipate. Platelet products are the most variable in daily usage, have short shelf …

Introduction: No guideline currently exists on how to detect or document haemolysis, icterus
or lipemia (HIL) in blood samples, nor on subsequent use of this information. The EFLM WG-…

It has been well reported over recent years that most errors within the total testing process
occur in the pre-analytical phase (46%–68.2%), an area that is usually outside of the direct …

Introduction: Compared to other activities of the testing process, the preanalytical phase is
plagued by a lower degree of standardization, which makes it more vulnerable to errors. With …

Acetolactate synthase inhibitors (ALS-inhibitors) and glyphosate (GLP) are two classes of
herbicide that act by the specific inhibition of an enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of …

Venous blood sampling (phlebotomy) is the most common invasive procedure performed in
patient care. Guidelines on the correct practice of phlebotomy are available, including the H3…

Herbicides that inhibit branched chain amino acid biosynthesis induce aerobic fermentation.
The role of fermentation in the mode of action of these herbicides is not known, nor is the …

Plant internal oxygen concentrations can drop well below ambient even when the plant
grows under optimal conditions. Using pea (Pisum sativum) roots, we show how amenable …

The endometrium, the mucosal lining of the uterus, undergoes dynamic changes throughout
the menstrual cycle in response to ovarian hormones. We have generated dense single-cell …

Patient safety is a leading challenge in healthcare and from the laboratory perspective it is
now well established that preanalytical errors are the major contributor to the overall rate of …