Jim Bentley
Laboratory Manager
Jim graduated from Arizona State University in the 1970s. Jim started out working in clinical chemistry and toxicology. Shortly after, Jim was managing a clinical laboratory in Houston, Texas called National Health Laboratories. It was a laboratory of about one hundred scientists and support staff. After mergers, acquisitions and such, that company remains as Lab Corp. It performs more than 1 million tests on more than 370,000 specimens each day.
Jim work I did with chromosomes was using electron microscopy. I worked in the biochemistry department, however and performed hundreds of assays using poly-acrylamide gel electrophoresis, mainly for separation of proteins. This technique, although improved and streamlined remains in use today for DNA-STR separation. The field we’re in today where we can determine a person’s profile and compare it with others for forensics for relationships, ancestry, missing persons, adoptions and the like, that technology hadn’t been developed yet. It wasn’t quite as easy as it is today.
Jim feels FarmVet Dx testing is on the threshold of even greater accolades of appreciation both from the scientific community and the public. Jim believes FarmVet Dx soon will be part of everyone’s daily lives.