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A resident presents an interesting case to the faculty, residents, clinical fellows and staff at the weekly Laboratory Medicine Case Conference. The discussion includes the pathogenesis of the disease, diagnostic pitfalls, effective use of laboratory tes
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The director and a medical technologist are analyzing the results from a Southern blot. The various people working in the lab, which range from the clerical staff to medical technologists to the director work as a team to provide the most timely and accur
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In addition to single head light microscopes, where the majority of technical work is performed, the Hematology Lab also utilizes multiheaded microscopes for training and consultations.
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The Krause lab studies the ability of marrow derived cells to engraft as epithelial cells. Shown is murine lung from a female mouse several months after transplantation with bone marrow from a male donor mouse. Anti-cytokeratin (yellow) stains the cytopla
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A pathologist and medical technologist review testing to determine which antibiotics to use to treat an infection.
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Christopher Tormey, MD and Peggy O'Donnell, RN carries out an apheresis procedure on one of our patients
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With the use of this many headed microscope, many people at the same time can visualize the presence of bacteria on a single slide. With an excellent teaching tool such as this, we can demonstrate and collaborate about the bacteria present in a patient s

Department of Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale has a long and proud tradition of providing leading edge clinical care, outstanding biomedical research, and comprehensive education. Its roots can be traced back to the work of John Peters, who, as head of the Metabolic Division of the Department of Medicine at Yale in the 1920's and 30's, established methodologies for the rigorous examination of the chemical composition of blood and urine that brought quantitative discipline to the study of human metabolism publishing the seminal volumes Quantitative Clinical Chemistry, Methods and Interpretations in 1931-32. This tradition of excellence, innovation, and evidence-based inquiry drives the Department.

The department has over 30 faculty involved in basic and applied biomedical research. The research interests of the faculty include immunology, stem cell biology, asthma/allergies, advanced cell therapy, biomarker discovery, cancer and molecular genetics, data science (computational healthcare and imaging), epilepsy/neuroinflammation, immunohematology and transfusion medicine, and microbiology/virology. Faculty are involved in teaching residents, medical students, graduate students (PhD), and Yale undergraduates.

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The Department of Laboratory Medicine has a long and proud tradition of providing leading edge clinical care, outstanding biomedical research, and comprehensive education in our field. We hope that our website reflects both where we are today and what we hope to achieve.

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