Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., and Kenneth Castro, M.D., recently shared their insights on the need for renewed action to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S., including the need for latent TB testing for people at risk. Read more in The New England Journal of Medicine:

New state legislation in Utah requires testing of all new rape cases. Together with the huge number of older kits, this created a massive backlog. Our QIAcube instrument now helps the new state crime lab in Taylorsville to automate this workload – and to free up staff to focus on other important tasks.