Affiliations 

  • 1 Toxicology, Wansbeck General Hospital, Ashington, UK
  • 2 St John's Dermatopathology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
  • 3 International Medical University , Bukit Jalil, School of Health Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Br J Biomed Sci, 2020 Oct;77(4):159-167.
PMID: 33252323 DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2020.1827578

Abstract

Each year the British Journal of Biomedical Science publishes a 'What have we learned' editorial designed to introduce readers within the major disciplines of laboratory medicine to developments outside their immediate area. In addition it is designed to inform a wider readership of the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. To this end, in 2020 the journal published 39 articles covering the disciplines within Biomedical Science in the 4 issues comprising volume 77. These included a review of COVID-19 in this issue, 27 original articles, 6 Biomedical Science 'In Brief' and 4 case histories. 27 of the articles involved molecular techniques, with one of these comparing results with a mass spectrometry based method. The preponderance of molecular genetic studies gives us a good idea of the likely future direction of the disciplines.

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