Quality Control
A slow movement of the data mean from one level to another indicative of a systematic error that is occurring slowly, such as reagent deterioration, control deterioration, or a lens getting progressively dirtier
What is a trend?
These two liver enzymes are commonly elevated in hepatitis and alcohol-related liver damage.
What are ALT and AST?
The process by which blood cells are formed
What is hematopoieisis?
Director, Laboratory Operations
Who is Nan Plunkett?
The year Medpace was founded
What is 1992?
Heptatitis B DNA
What is Molecular?
This person has named two species of fungus.
Who is Alassane?
This citrus fruit is significant at Beckman Coulter
What is a lemon?
This type of QC ensures your lab’s results are comparable with other labs and is often monitored through CAP or API surveys.
What is External QC (Peer Groups or Proficiency Testing)?
The range of analyte concentrations that a method can directly measure without any dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment.
What is Analytical Measurement Range (AMR)?
This large white blood cell with folded or kidney-shaped nuclei becomes a macrophage once it enters tissues.
What is a Monocyte?
Vice President, MRL Operations and MARC
Who is Dr. Turner?
The year the laboratory relocated to 5365 Medpace Way
What is 2012?
Basophils
What is Hematology?
This person is on the NASCAR fan council.
What is Jason F.?
A member of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame and holder of 85 patents. Best known for his long line of innovative breakthroughs in hematology analysis which radically changed hematology by allowing more accurate and faster CBC (Complete Blood Count) analysis.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
This Westgard rule is violated when both levels of qc are out greater than 2 SD.
What is a 2-2S violation?
The most common method used in the clinical lab to measure electrolytes
What are Ion Selective Electrodes (ISEs)?
This red blood cell morphology term describes RBCs with dark centers and pale rings — commonly seen in liver disease.
What are Target Cells?
Principal Scientist, Central Laboratory
Who are Dr. Robbins or Dr. Allen?
The year the lab split into two separate teams.
What is 2020?
Cystatin C (urine)
What is Chemistry?
This person owns a multicolored tabby named Hercules who is polydactyl.
Who is Ariana?
The DXI 9000 is Beckman's newest award-winning Immunoassay analyzer providing mass-spec sensitivity on an automated platform with zero daily maintenance. This sensitivity has allowed us to pursue this group of tests on plasma vs CSF?
What are Neurodegenerative Biomarkers (pTAU 217, B-Amyloid, NfL, GFAP and APOE)?
This term describes the ability of a method to give the same result under consistent conditions.
What is Precision?
In a serial dilution, if tube 1 is undiluted and twofold dilutions are used thereafter, this is the titer in tube #10
What is 512?
These immature neutrophils indicate a “left shift” when elevated.
What are bands?
Senior Director, Clinical Laboratory Science
Who is Dr. Marcovina?
The year Medpace went public
What is 2016?
Fibrinogen
What is BNII or Coagulation?
This person has a 8 fish and 3 aquatic frogs.
Who is Ben?
Location of the Beckman Coulter's global headquarters
Where is Brea, California?
These two pathologists were the pioneers of using statistics for the standardization and calibration of analytical procedures.
Who are Levey and Jennings?
The difference between measured cations (positively charged ions like Na+ and K+) and measured anions (negatively charged ions like Cl- and HCO3-)
What is Anion Gap?
What is an Eosinophil?
Bioinformatics Scientist
Who is Wenyi Qin?
The year Histology received its first sample.
What is 2023?
Chol1006_raw
What is Beta Quants?
This person has dual citizenship.
Who is Sayuri?
While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded his company based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience".
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
This analytical technique separates molecules based on size and charge.
What is Electrophoresis?
This patented principle is described as the detection and measurement of changes in electrical resistance produced by a particle or cell suspended in a conductive liquid traversing through a small aperture.
What is the Coulter Principle?
Senior Medical Director
Who is Dr. McGee?
The year that the 3rd floor laboratory space opened.
What is 2022?
FGF_21
What is Elisa?
This person has been to 47 of the 50 US states.
Who is Janae?
Beckman Coulters Global Distribution Center is located in this city.
What is Hebron, KY?