Lyme Disease Lab Test

by Amanda on May 16, 2022

Lyme Disease Awareness Month

Photo by Josh Willink via Pexels May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. It is a month to share information, stories, and preventative care about a disease that affects so many around the world. Let’s take a moment and look at the big picture of what we know about Lyme disease. Lyme disease was identified in [...]

by Amanda on October 8, 2021

Galaxy’s New Brochure for Lyme Borreliosis

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Galaxy Diagnostics’ research and development team has remained dedicated to advancing diagnostics for flea- and tick-borne diseases. In this new brochure, we discuss Lyme borreliosis and the advantages of our revolutionary Nanotrap® test that was launched last year. Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne disease that causes both acute and chronic symptoms [...]

by Amanda on July 23, 2021

Watch Galaxy’s Director of Research and Development Answer FAQs from Patients and Providers

Jennifer Miller, PhD is the director of research and development as well as the assistant lab director at Galaxy Diagnostics. Dr. Miller holds a doctorate in microbiology and brings an exceptional and diverse background in microbiology research and education, including over 20 years of experience with vector-borne pathogens. She recently sat down with us to [...]

by Amanda on July 9, 2021

Galaxy Diagnostics’ President and CEO Reflects on Diagnostics Commercialization and Novel Alzheimer’s Disease Biotechnology Development

Amanda Elam, PhD, President and CEO of Galaxy Diagnostics, recently spoke at the 2021 Intracell Research Group Conference, Before Amyloid Beta: Exploring Pre-pathology Events in Alzheimer’s Disease. Videos of all of the presentations can be found here and here. Dr. Elam’s presentation can be found 53 minutes into the second video. In this presentation, Dr. [...]

by Amanda on June 18, 2021

Checking in on the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was established by the 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in 2016. More than 300 pages long, the Act was a sweeping response to many issues in health care brought up by health care professionals, health care businesses and members of the public. Some of these health care issues had [...]

by Amanda on June 4, 2021

The Borrelia Genus: More than Lyme Disease

Borrelia burgdorferi s.s., the most common cause of Lyme disease, receives the most attention among the genus Borrelia. However, there are other Borrelia species that can make you sick following a bite from a tick or another vector. These include other location-specific species that cause Lyme disease, relapsing fever species which include some new interlopers [...]

Holiday Lab Closure Dec. 23-25 & Dec. 31-Jan. 1

Do not ship samples from Dec. 20th-25th. You can ship on the 26th. Do not ship between Dec. 27th-Jan. 1st.

Test Results may be delayed during this time until normal operations resume.

Please hold all other samples in the refrigerator for shipment until we can receive them on Thursday, Jan. 2nd.