Here is something fun from work this week. We don't often get positive malaria smears, but they do happen. The key to reading malarial smears is knowing what is not in normal blood.          I have attached

Ever wonder how much workload a clinical lab at a good-sized hospital process in a month? Well, here's a partial look at those statistics. The numbers here only apply to tests and patient samples that

Some acronyms that could help you read this post: AFB = acid fast bacillus MGIT = mycobacteria growth indicator tubes And this post is a continuation of this one.          Remember the stats I showed you

In the fictional Star Trek universe most space-faring civilizations use matter-antimatter annihilation to power their spacecrafts. For 2020 A.D. Earth that is literally a tall order because antimatter

AFB = acid fast bacilli          Processing acid fast bacilli cultures takes quite a bit of time. In fact, it usually occupies a third of my 10-hour shift. I often do them along side of fungal cultures

Supporting Steemians on STEMGeeks! Hello STEMgeeks! @stem.curate is running a competition over the next week where you will be able to win 1 STEM miner token. This is a value of 20 Steem and if staked

Water is our life's blood. Our bodies thrive on it. Civilizations rise and fall from its use. Water also provides power. Ancient civilizations perfected methods to use the power provided by water to simplify

Well, this was an unexpected surprise from my department supervisor.          Without knowing anything, one could tell something terrible had happened. Our quality control is outside of accepted range.

Pixabay Image While doing some curating this morning for the @stem.curate account, I ran across an interesting article on the origins of the Human species here by @higgs. This has always been a fascinating

When I was in school going through my microbiology courses, it was hectic. Don't get me wrong, I loved those classes and my desire to do well was genuine. I remember setting up biochemical tests to identify

In today's day and age you can practically buy just about any sort of plant/herbal/fungi medicine whether online or in stores. It's pretty common for folks to take capsules of particular extracts to help

It was the first night back to work since part of my Christmas vacation. I only work until the coming Wednesday morning and I'm gone for another week. Lucky for me, something unsual happened the first

Welcome to the #stemsunday edition of my anaerobic digester series, if you would like to see the introduction post please click here. Yet again a day late, sorry! Can I blame the holidays? Click here for

You may have a good central heating system at home. Even then, there could be certain parts of the house that will not receive adequate heat. Yes, I am looking at the basement and sometimes the bathrooms.

Welcome to the #stemsunday edition of my anaerobic digester series, if you would like to see the introduction post please click here. Yes I know it's a day late, and I apologize for not getting back to

Accidents happen in the laboratory. In fact, accidents happen in most, if not all, sectors of healthcare. Trust me, it's not fun dealing with them.          I recall shadowing a phlebotomist during my

Welcome to the #stemsunday edition of my anaerobic digester series, if you would like to see the introduction post please click here. Click here for Part II. Click here for Part III. This is Part IV of

Some Pixabay image          It's another night at the job when I received a phone call from the floor in regards to a test. For the record, I work in the microbiology department in the hospital lab. The

Hello Steemians! Nearby my home, there is the principal river of my province, the Frigido River. I often go there because there is a medium-long walk around the final portions of the water basin, the Frigido

Electric guitar pick-ups Steemians friends well found for a new chapter #stemsunday on electric guitars. This time we talk about pickups, the magnets that "fan" our guitar. They are nothing but