by Ascenda Staff At Ascenda BioSciences, we take antibiotic resistance seriously. We test for antibiotic drug resistance gene characteristics to the following: ß-lactamase Abstract Antibiotic resistance is a problem of deep scientific concern both in...
New work has confirmed calprotectin (which is tested for here at Ascenda BioSciences) in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in pediatric patients, and is a terrific modality to help avoid cumbersome referrals and costly colonoscopies. A recent...
A New Year and a new organ! Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! Most of the time when I post interesting information on this blog, I do so after getting an update from the GI community. But today, I got an update from one of our very own technologists, Scott Loden...
If you have been following any of my recent entries to this blog, you may know that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been getting a very bad reputation secondary to all of the bad things they may be associated with. This is definitely very dismal news for the...
Many patients who suffer with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) take medication to help suppress the production of acid in their GI tract. These acid reducers include the very common drugs known as proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs. However, these seeming...
by Bernadette M. Mandes Wildemore Just as many new families are being given the option to ‘bank’ their new baby’s cord blood for potential later use, so too are patients now able to bank their own stool sample prior to the possible later development of Clostridium...
