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Pathogen Load Indicator: Going Above & Beyond Other PCR Tests
There are numerous PCR products on the market which have been brought into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what makes one PCR test better than another? Integrity Laboratories’ genetics-based, laboratory-developed testing has been proven superior to...

Variant of Interest vs Variant of Concern – What’s the Difference?
As the Sars-COV-2 virus continues to spread across the globe, the World Health Organization has readily identified four COVID 'variants of concern': alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. As of late, the delta variant has proven to be particularly transmissible, hitting the...

Rapid Tests vs. RT-PCR COVID-19 Tests: What’s the Difference?
There are a number of types of COVID-19 tests available on the market, all generated with the intent to help diagnose and improve the treatment of patients with severe symptoms. Unfortunately, many of these tests face the same obstacles as other infectious disease...

CDC reports transmission of drug-resistant Candida auris with threat level – urgent
Candida auris is an emerging multi-drug resistant, highly transmissible yeast (a type of fungus) affecting especially severely ill patients with weakened immune systems mostly in long-term care health facilities. C. auris spreads from skin wounds and leads to invasive...

Customer Care: The Patient Always Matters
One of the greatest misconceptions about the field of diagnostics is that as scientists, we care more about results than we do about customer and patient satisfaction. However, that’s certainly not the case at Integrity Laboratories. Although it’s easy to imagine the...

Thank You for Honoring Us with a Pinnacle Business Award
2020 was a year for significant change - for patients, for hospitals, for businesses, and for daily life. The many obstacles we have faced as a country - and as an entire world - against the Sars-COV-2 virus have made life very different from what we are used to. But...

Your Top COVID-19 Result Questions
Since transitioning from a comprehensive infectious-disease diagnostic center to working to cover Sars-COV-2 infection rates at this time, we’ve received a number of patient calls and questions about our COVID-19 diagnostic test. Integrity Laboratories was built to...

Why Physicians Need Improved Understanding of Lab Techniques
There are few fields where collaboration could benefit more than medical practice and laboratory testing. Our goal is to expand the relationship between technicians and physicians. Though healthcare professionals are well versed in understanding laboratory results and...

The Need for Better Diagnostics in Infectious Disease
Scientific research requires constant innovation - that is why we propose a new perspective for better diagnostics in infectious disease. Pathogenic microbes have plagued the world as long as there has been life. Fortunately, one of the defining characteristics of...

GenomIQ – The Think Tank Behind Integrity Laboratories
For decades, scientific research has seen a decline in out-of-the-box thinking. Instead, scientists have focused on more restrictive, linear, often sequential reasoning resulting in smaller but thoughtful technical advancements. In a strange turn of events,...