A Review of Advanced Medical Laboratory Methods and Techniques

Subject Areas : biotechnology

ERICK EDWARD MAGANGA ¹ ()
darla srinivasa rao ² (galgotias university)

Received: 2024-05-13 Accepted : 2024-08-02 Published : 2024-08-16

Keywords: digital pcr, diagnosis, lmc/ms, dna,

Abstract :

Technology goods determine the clinical laboratory's analytical capability. Every generation of analytical equipment and techniques that have been accessible in the laboratory since the Auto Analyzer in 1957 has been more automated (or mechanized), prolific, sensitive, specific, and adaptable than the one before it. There was a lot of leeway in the selection and assembly of the analytical systems utilized in a clinical laboratory between 1957 and the middle of the 1970s. For instance, an instrument may be chosen and bought from a single vendor, and the seller could supply the reagents and procedures or they could be acquired from other sources. A new generation of analytical systems, with all the instrumental, methodological, and reagent components combined into a single self-consumed unit, accrues from the numerous technological advancements over the past 15 years. These initiatives, and which have become recognized as "closed," are highly automated, and they now handle many of the analytical tasks that formerly needed labor or human intervention. The way that the clinical laboratory of the future is manned, furnished, set up, and run will be greatly impacted by the availability of these new systems that reduce the need for human touch in the analytical process. This study examines a number of domains where notable technological breakthroughs have occurred and talks about the influence these technologies are having, or will likely have, on the clinical laboratory.

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