With recent advances in technology allowing scientists to examine the make up of microorganisms (known as microbiota) in our guts, it seems each month there is a new disorder or disease found to be linked someway to the trillions of members of the VIP gut club. Researchers from the University of Br... [More]

The Metametrix Handbook, Second Edition, includes many new analytes and reorganization of some chapters. The handbook has been revised to include the new analytes and tests we have added since the initial printing. Listed below are a few of the changes you will notice in the second edition. Amino A... [More]

When people hear the word Cryptosporidium, they may associate it with large-scale outbreaks of diarrhea caused by its contamination of water supplies. This indeed is one of the major causes of Cryptosporidium infection (i.e. cryptosporidiosis), but it is certainly not the only one. Cryptosporidiosis... [More]