Diagnostics

This virtual tour shows the inside of a new diagnostic facility at Washington State University. The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL) is a leader in the discovery, detection, and prevention of diseases affecting livestock, pets, poultry, and fish in the Pacific Northwest. This role is increasingly important given the ability for animal diseases, like coronaviruses and influenza, to spread to humans. The tour highlights security features and describes the laboratory's workflow. Read more

Please note : This article was written by Eric Devlin, Montgomery County Community College. Mr. Devlin also contributed the photos. The photos and text in this article are used with his permission.

Montgomery County Community College Biotechnology Program alumni are among the researchers on the front line against the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve helped develop an antibody that’s used to detect the virus in patient testing samples.

Alumni Amber Sawyer, Sean Heron and Seethal Meda are employees at the Limerick Township-based Rockland Immunochemicals Inc. , which earlier this year, developed the Anti-SARS-CoV Nucleocapsid (N) Protein... Read more