State-of-the-Art Lectures

C-Reactive Protein:New Applications:
Dr Job Ubbink, D.Sc (Pret), MRCPath (Lond) Consultant: Chemical Pathology

The Multirule Interpretation:
Prof Rhena Delport, PhD (Pret) Lecturer Chemical Pathology

Method Comparison:
Prof Rhena Delport, PhD (Pret) Lecturer Chemical Pathology

Adiponectin:
Prof RT Erasmus.Department of Chemical Pathology, Tygerberg Hospital,University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg

AACC Clinical Chemistry Journal Club:

False-Negative Results in Point-of-Care Qualitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Devices Due to Excess hCGß Core Fragment
by Ann M. Gronowski, Mark Cervinski, Ulf-Håkan Stenman, Alison Woodworth, Lori Ashby, and Mitchell G. Scott

Maternal Plasma DNA Analysis Using Massively Parallel Sequencing-By-Ligation for Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Trisomy 21
by R. W.K. Chiu, H. Sun, R. Akolekar, C. Clouser, C. Lee, K. Mckernan, D. Zhou, K. H. Nicolaides, and Y. M. Dennis Lo

LOX Index, a Novel Predictive Biochemical Marker for Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke
by N. Inoue, T. Okamura, Y. Kokubo, Y. Fujita, Y. Sato, M. Nakanishi, K. Yanagida, A. Kakino, S. Iwamoto, M. Watanabe, S. Ogura, K. Otsui, H. Matsuda, K. Uchida, R. Yoshimoto, and T. Sawamura.

Selected Reaction Monitoring–Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay Responsive to Parathyroid Hormone and Related Variants
by M.F. Lopez, T. Rezai, D. A. Sarracino, A. Prakash, B. Krastins, M. Athanas, R.J. Singh, D.R. Barnidge, P. Oran, C. Borges, and R.W. Nelson

Enrichment and Detection of Rare Alleles by Means of Snapback Primers and Rapid-Cycle PCR
by L. Zhou, R.A. Palais, G.D. Smith, D. Anderson, L.R. Rowe, and C.T. Wittwer

γ' Fibrinogen: Evaluation of a New Assay for Study of Associations with Cardiovascular Disease
by R.S. Lovely, S.C. Kazmierczak, J.M. Massaro, R.B. D'Agostino, Sr., C.J. O'Donnell, and D.H. Farrell

Quantification of Galactose-1-Phosphate Uridyltransferase Enzyme Activity by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry
by Y. Li, A.S. Ptolemy, L. Harmonay, M. Kellogg, and G.T. Berry