Animal biotechnology encompasses a broad range of techniques for the genetic improvement of domesticated animal species, although the term is increasingly associated with the more controversial technologies of cloning and genetic engineering. Despite the many potential applications of these two biotechnologies, no public or private entity has yet delivered a genetically engineered food-animal p...

The American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) a national professional association whose members are directors, owners, managers, and supervisors of community clinical laboratories respectfully submits the following comments relating to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) medical devices draft guidance for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) criteria for waiver. AAB me...

The service architecture of the SCAMPI platform will be built form scratch. There has been interest to use RESTful like approach; however, the opportunistic aspects of the network impose several challenges on the approach. Thus, one of our major interests in this workshop is to hear more about recent work in Constrained RESTful Environments (CORE) working group. Moreover, energy efficiency is a...

Clonal stability of tree dryness was evaluated in eleven clones of Hevea brasiliensis at the Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria. The experimental design was the randomized complete block with three replicates and ten trees per replicate. The clones were evaluated in three locations. Four stability parameters were applied. The stability parameters were: environmental variance, regression index...

Clinical microbiology laboratory directors come from diverse backgrounds with overlapping but not identical training experiences. Although director responsibilities are defined by CLIA legislation, there is no standardization of job descriptions among hospital or university settings. One job that would make the microbiology director indispensable, if done well, is clinical consultation. Other c...

In the goal of genetic improvement of livestock by marker assisted selection, we aim at reconstructing the haplotypes of sires from their offspring. We reformulated this problem into a binary weighted constraint satisfaction problem. Our results showed these problems have a small treewidth and can be solved optimally, improving haplotype reconstruction compared to previous approaches especially...

This article explores whether laws that restrict the communication of genetic test results may, under certain circumstances, violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The focus is whether investigators have a right to return results from non-CLIA-certified laboratories in situations where a research participant requests the results and the investigator is willing to share them but i...

Increasingly, biotechnology becomes an integral part of the arsenal of tools that can be used to improve animal production in order to meet the demands of the consumer within economic, environmental and ethical constraints imposed by society. Biotechnology contributes to animal production by improving the environmental component of the production systems as well as by improving the genetic make...

clinical laboratories by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), The Joint Commission revised several elements of performance (EPs) for the laboratory accreditation program to meet the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88). The Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners accepted the new and revised EPs in December (effective February 1, 2012) and in February (...

Genetic variability is a fundamental condition for the genetic gain in improvement programs (Ferreira et al. 1995). Regarding recurrent selection, it is expected that in the sequence of the consecutive cycles the mean values of the traits of interest increase in function of the concentration of favorable alleles, although without reduction in the genetic variability (Hallauer 1971). The high ge...