Diagnostics

The entire spectrum of modern diagnostic methods for children and adults is available in the specialist area of allergy diagnostics. The diagnostics are carried out jointly by laboratory physicians, pediatricians and dermatologists.

The specialist area of autoimmune diagnostics covers the entire methodological and technical spectrum for the diagnosis of diseases with an excessive reaction of the immune system against the body’s own tissue.

The Endocrinology & Metabolism department combines expertise: the internal medicine, gynecology and pediatric experience of clinicians is combined with the expertise of pediatric metabolic medicine and laboratory diagnostics.

The department of Forensic Genetics deals with the DNA analysis of biological materials in order to provide evidence in legal disputes.

Tumor diseases are extremely heterogeneous. A comprehensive set of diagnostic tools is often necessary to make an accurate diagnosis. These include immunological methods, genetics and cytogenetics as well as morphological procedures.

The department of Human Genetics offers a comprehensive range of diagnostic methods and human genetic expertise in the fields of molecular genetics, cytogenetics, tumor cytogenetics and array CGH.

The department of Immunology offers comprehensive diagnostics with a focus on cellular immunophenotyping and functional tests for patients with suspected primary or secondary immunodeficiencies as well as for intensive care medicine.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine & Toxicology provides 24-hour, round-the-clock laboratory medical diagnostics for Charité, Vivantes and numerous regional and national hospitals.

In keeping with the Berlin tradition of Robert Koch and Hans Christian Gram, microbiology is committed to using the latest methods to identify and characterize infectious agents.

Modern virology is a young and highly innovative field of activity for doctors and scientists. Scientific research and efficient patient care are mutually dependent and mutually beneficial.

The Infection Serology department at Labor Berlin is organized as a platform: it carries out diagnostics on behalf of the Virology and Microbiology & Hygiene departments. This involves the diagnosis of infections caused by viruses such as the measles virus and SARS-CoV-2 or by bacteria such as borrelia and syphilis pathogens. In contrast to microbiology laboratories or molecular diagnostics, which identify pathogens directly by means of culture or detection of their genetic components, infection serology detects infections indirectly.

At Labor Berlin, the molecular biological routine diagnostics of the Virology, Human Genetics, Microbiology & Hygiene, Laboratory Medicine & Toxicology and Hematology & Oncology departments have been brought together on one platform. The molecular diagnostics platform is divided into the accredited areas of molecular diagnostics and next generation sequencing (NGS) and primarily uses the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, including for testing patient material for infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria and fungi as well as for disease-causing mutations in the human genome.