Solving big problems sometimes involves crunching big data, and a University of Colorado Boulder initiative has won a significant grant to help the developing world do just that. The University of ...

CU Boulder’s LISA 2020 set out to foster 20 statistics labs in the developing world by 2020; the latest count is 28 Eric Vance didn’t have a job lined up when he graduated from the University of ...

Achieving quality in the medical laboratory requires the use of many tools. This workbook explains the basic knowledge necessary to understand a simple but effective statistical process control system ...

While a lab test might be ordered STAT to help save a life, a new study suggests that the STAT test order should rest in peace, and instead the time standard for most clinical lab tests, like the ...

Paul Knoepfler writes STAT’s Lab Dish column, which covers regenerative medicine. He leads the University of California-Davis’ Knoepfler Lab. Lab Dish examines cell therapies, gene editing, regulation ...

The ability to collect and learn from large amounts of data has been a major driver of innovation over recent decades. Everything from health care—think patient analytics, wearable devices and the ...

Lab Chat is a series of conversations between STAT reporters and scientists about the latest research in the life sciences. These conversations cover a wide range of topics, from new discoveries in ...