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AI Reshapes Job Market: New Priorities for Clinical Labs
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future consideration in the job market. Instead, it is actively reshaping how professionals find work, how roles are defined, and which skills employers value most. According to recent LinkedIn resear…
Crucial Themes Shape 2026 Executive War College
With 2026 now upon us, our attention here at …
Top Stories in 2025 Played Out in Courts, Capitol Hill
CEO SUMMARY: The biggest story of the year for clinical laboratories came in a huge court victory, as a federal judge vacated the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests. Labs breathed a sigh of relief after the court decision, as the FDA rule had promised to incr…
In 2026, Challenges Can Be Business Opportunities
Looking over The Dark Report’s annual rundown of the most significant clinical laboratory and pathology stories of the past year, the world “tumult” comes to mind. At points during the past year the tumult leaned in the favor of labs, such as a federal …
Paper, the Cloud, and Lessons for Laboratories
Paper requisitions. Cloud-based data. These two…
Pathologists Take Images to the Cloud
CEO SUMMARY: Scaled-up operations, streamlined logistics, and potential cybersecurity benefits all present a valid argument for pathology practices to move their data to the cloud. Digital pathology in particular stands to gain from a cloud-based setup that allows remote v…
Quest, Labcorp Tout Their Alzheimer’s Tests and Use of AI
Executives at Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp cheered strong revenue growth in the third quarter. Both companies noted excellent recent launches of Alzheimer’s disease tests. In addition, both companies reported they are leaning heavily into artificial intelligen…
Reforms in China Affect IVD Companies’ Q3 2025 Earnings
Most of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers that serve clinical laboratories worldwide reported facing financial “headwinds” in the China IVD market that affected their third-quarter performance. This was due to policy changes in the country…
November 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Dealmaking continues in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry as AI-driven genomics and private equity reshape the market for a data-first future. On Nov. 4, Qiagen said it will acquire Parse Biosciences for $280 million to expand its reach into single-cell sequencing, levera…
More Signs of Shifting Sands in the Lab World
If you feel like the ground is shifting under y…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2026
The Dark Report looks at the FDA’s move to reclassify Oncology companion diagnostics as Class II medical devices and considers how labs can benefit. Also, observers are concerned about the effect of PAMA cuts on rural clinical laboratories.
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