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• A New Look at an Old Pal
• An Uncommon Blood Culture Isolate
• Anti-CCP - Is this the new Rheumatoid Factor?
• Antimicrobial resistance in group B streptococcus (GBS)
• Assessing Renal Function in the Elderly
• Blood Matters: Improving the Safe and Appropriate Use of Blood
• Blood Pharming
• Can Parasites Treat Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases?
• Case Report: Isolation of Mycobacterium Abscessus from a Lung Transplant Patient
• Challenges in Genetic Testing of Cardiac Arrhythmia Disorders
• Chromogenic Media - Principles and Applications
• Cultural Learnings from a Trauma Unit for the Glorious Benefit of Scientists
• Cytogenetic Analysis in Acute Leukaemias
• Diagnostic Electron Microscopy: Current Practice and Future Directions
• DNA Sequencing in a Mycology Laboratory
• Emerging Infectious Diseases in an Overpopulated Planet
• Epigenetic Inheritance - Future Diagnostic Tests?
• Flow Cytometric Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia and Multiple Myeloma
• Future Trends in Global Health
• Generating Automatic Report Comments
• Genetics of Thalassaemia and Haemoglobinopathy (Multicultural Melbourne)
• Genomics of High Risk Acute Leukemia
• Haemophilia A testing in the Clinical Genetics Laboratory
• Handy Hints to Improve your Lab using Lean 6 Sigma
• Histology & Research: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & Brain Repair
• HoloTranscobalamin versus total B12: An Evidence-based Perspective
• Honey – does it really help in wound healing?
• Hospital Infection Control – Current Successes and Future Challenges
• HPV Testing - A Laboratory Perspective
• HSC Expansion for the Clinic
• Human Papillomavirus Testing Methodology
• Identification of a new family of proteins regulating blood clotting - Role for Dok2 in regulating platelet function
• Identifying Fungi: Do we need to use Molecular Methods?
• Implementation of Multi-Slice CT Technology in a Forensic Mortuary
• Innovation in Histopathology Teaching
• Insights into the Biology of Acute Leukaemia from High Resolution Genomic Approaches
• Investigation of Rare Haemoglobin Variants
• Is the Chorus in Tune? A Performance Review
• Key Incident Monitoring and Management Systems (KIMMS)
• Key Incident Monitoring and Management Systems (KIMMS) Workshop
• Laboratory Detection of Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance
• Marilyn goes to Bollywood
• Massive Transfusion Management a State problem
• Mechanisms of Thrombus Stability and Growth
• Medical Retrieval as Part of the Mass Casualty Response
• Medical Science Applications of the Australian Synchrotron
• Meeting the Challenge: The Evolving Diagnostic Laboratory
• Modelling the Impact of an Influenza Pandemic
• Molecular Technique Relevant to Blood Group Genotyping
• Monitoring CD4 In Resource Poor Countries: Issues Facing Laboratory Scientists
• New Developments in HIV Molecular Diagnostics
• New Markers of Inflammation
• Normal Karyotype Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (NK-AML), Slicing the Cake
• Platelet Survival In Vivo and the Role of the Bcl-2 Protein Family
• Practising Medicine in Developing Countries
• Prostate and AMACR Cocktail Immunohistochemistry
• Quality at Point of Care
• Rh (D) Genotyping of Foetal DNA extracted from Maternal Plasma
• Scientific Writing
• Stem Cell Markers in Ocular Tissue
• Stongyloides Serology - Refugee Screening and Treatment Monitoring
• The Changing Face of Coagulation; the Changing Face of Medical Science
• The Clinical Pathology of Aging
• The Genetic Regulation of Cerebral Cortex Development
• The Human Genome Project: Was It Worth The $3 Billion?
• The Impact of High Throughput Sequencing Technologies: Microarrays have probably had their Day
• The Impact of Pre-Analytical Error
• The Investigation of Alternative Immunisation Strategies in Developing Countries to Prevent Pneumococcal Disease
• The Quintessential Gene: Unravelling the Complexity of the Globin Clusters
• The Role of Flow Cytometry in Myelodyplastic Syndromes (MDS)
• The ThinPrep® Imaging System - An Automated Approach to Cervical Cytology
• Using Mouse Models to Understand How Myeloid Leukaemia Develops
• Victorian Workforce Initiatives
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin D - Is there a Crisis
• What To Do When Things Go Wrong?

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