Laboratory Newsletters
Our newsletter is published by the Cancer & Blood Diseases Institute Clinical Laboratories to keep our clients and physicians up to date on test development and clinical utilization and to provide patient vignettes and highlight new assays or other information.
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Read the Current Issue
- Issue 19: This issue features the introduction of The Laboratory of Precision Diagnostics, a new initiative within our Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory. Also, introducing a new assay for Angiopoietin-2 and a reminder about cold weather sample handling.
Past Issues
Previous issues of the newsletter are available:
- Issue 18: New test offerings: IFN-alpha, IFN-beta, and a standalone IL-6 assay. This issue also features our high-resolution PNH testing and an update on the CXCL9 assay.
- Issue 17: Update for the sIL2R test; featuring F-Cell analysis to monitor hydroxyurea.
- Issue 16: Spotlight on genomics—introduction of the Immunology Exome
- Issue 15: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) and CXCL9 are important pro-inflammatory cytokines involved in a variety of immune processes associated with infection, inflammation and autoimmunity. Read about how we measure it and what it means to our clinicians.
- Issue 14: Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) flow cytometry screening assay sensitivity and specificity reviewed. WASP Chimerism monitoring available post-transplant. S100 A8/A9 and S100 A12 testing to aid in the management of autoinflammatory syndromes.
- Issue 13: HLH Testing; NK Function, Perforin and Granzyme B, CD107a, SAP, XIAP Assays and the Genetic HLH Algorithm
- Issue 12: New Assays: PAP Testing (GM-CSF Autoantibody and GM-CSF Receptor Stimulation), T Cell Degranulation, Osmotic Gradient Ektacytometry and Hemoglobin-Oxygen Affinity, p50
- Issue 11: Th17 Enumeration and HIES Syndrome
- Issue 10: Revised B Cell Panel and ALPS Lab Assay Update
- Issue 9: Revised CD45 RARO panel; WASP Transplant Panel
- Issue 8: Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
- Issue 7: XIAP-XLP2 assay; FA diagnostics
- Issue 6: A Confusing Case of Class Switching?; Flow Cytometry: STAT!; Pattern Recognition
- Issue 5: BAFFled about B-cell recovery; CD107a: Turning Cytotoxicity Inside-Out; Immuno-101: DNTCs
- Issue 4: A Season of Spring in the DIL; Monitoring B-cell depletion therapy; A new look at cytotoxicity
- Issue 3: A Case of Mistaken Immunologic Identity?; A Flaer for PNH; Eosinophil-based assays; Immuno-101
- Issue 2: B-Cell Panel; ICOS Upregulation
- Issue 1: ALPS Panel; CD64 Upregulation
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Recruitment
The Immunodeficiency and Histiocytosis Program in the Division of Hematology / Oncology has a variety of research protocols open for recruitment. These protocols share the main feature that they serve to better understand immunologic disease, as it pertains to increased susceptibility to infections, autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation and hemophagocytosis. Our research protocols focus on careful characterization of clinical disease combined with comprehensive immunologic and genetic testing of blood and / or tissues.
