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Endothelial Cells: Playing Telephone on a Football Field

Source: Photo by Robert Hernandez Villalta from Pexels The endothelium is a membrane made of cells that primarily lines the inside of the heart and blood vessels. Not only does the membrane fill space, it also participates in a complex bio-signaling that scientists are only beginning to understand. Infections that disrupt the endothelium can cause [...]

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Bartonellosis and Rare Disease Day

Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels Rare Disease Day is February 28. Rare diseases have specific legal definitions that are tied to support from various governmental programs around the world. Patient registries are a key part of the call for funding for rare disease research and are needed to advance the research on tick-borne diseases like Lyme borreliosis, [...]

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Lyme Disease in Black People

Source: PEXELS via Pixabay Underrepresentation of Dark Skin in Medical Literature Recently, a medical illustration of a fetus in utero went viral. It was one of the first depictions many people had seen of a darker-skinned baby in a medical context. Chidiebere Ibe is the Nigerian medical student behind this revolutionary illustration and many more. [...]

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One Health Month 2022: People and Animals Caring For Each Other

In 2019, the US Senate passed a bipartisan resolution designating January 2020 as One Health Awareness Month in the United States. Now, One Health advocates around the world promote and celebrate One Health education in the beginning of each year. Source: CDC   At Galaxy Diagnostics, we educate about the risks of zoonotic pathogens to [...]

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Revisiting Bartonella Digital ePCR and the Triple Draw Approach

This year Galaxy Diagnostics released Bartonella Digital ePCR™, which combines ddPCR technology with BAPGM™ enrichment to enhance direct detection of infection. Although replacing qPCR with ddPCR has increased the sensitivity of our ePCR™ platform, collecting samples on three different days (known as Triple Draw) is still the recommended approach for confirming a bartonellosis diagnosis.   [...]

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