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Diagnostics World | Grail presented for the first time at the 42rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference today, and Bob Ragusa, CEO, took the stage. Grail was divested from Illumina and became an independent, publicly traded company in June 2024. But while the company structure has changed significantly in 2024, the mission has not, Ragusa said: detecting cancer early, when it can be cured.
Jan 15, 2025
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Diagnostics World | Among the many partnerships and technical announcements made by NVIDIA during the company's Monday morning presentation at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, NVIDIA focused several on innovation within the healthcare and life sciences industry.
Jan 13, 2025
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Diagnostics World | In the next phase of breath diagnostics, there is a promising area for future research: expanding upon the notion of “breath diagnostics” to leverage volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from elsewhere. VOCs from urine could be used to detect prostate cancer, for example. If looked at carefully with the right AI tools, leveraging VOCs could lead to compelling healthcare solutions down the road.
Jan 9, 2025
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Diagnostics World | An international team of researchers hope to identify molecular and cellular level changes in muscle tissue that can be used to help diagnose and treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and long COVID. The quest is being pursued from both the physiological and electrical perspectives to better understand the muscle damage seen with the debilitating and still-mysterious conditions that share some striking similarities.
Jan 8, 2025
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Diagnostics World | 2024 was full of innovative ideas and achievements. We spoke with industry experts and leaders about what to expect in the new year. Here are the full predictions and trends, including more information on the impact of AI/ML, spatial biology, antimicrobial resistance, and more.
Jan 7, 2025
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Diagnostics World | 2024 was a packed year for diagnostics, starting with the FDA’s final rule amending the agency’s regulations to clarify in vitro diagnostics (IVDs). Companion diagnostics (CDx) also made great strides. Plus: Babson Diagnostics has a new blood testing that does what Theranos claimed to do. Here are the top stories of Diagnostic World News and thoughts from industry leaders.
Jan 3, 2025
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Diagnostics World | PathAI launches the AIM-IHC Breast Panel; electronRx plans purpleDx, a cardiopulmonary assessment app; and more.
Dec 27, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Adcendo plans to advance ADC programs; Beta Bionics to expand iLet Bionic Pancreas; and more.
Dec 23, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Sepsis ImmunoScore, the first FDA-authorized AI diagnostic for sepsis, has high accuracy for the diagnosis of sepsis and for prediction of key adverse patient outcomes, reports a paper published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine AI. In the paper, the authors write that the test showed both diagnostic and prognostic power.
Dec 17, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Sepsis ImmunoScore, the first FDA-authorized AI diagnostic for sepsis, has high accuracy for the diagnosis of sepsis and for prediction of key adverse patient outcomes, reports a paper published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine AI. In the paper, the authors write that the test showed both diagnostic and prognostic power.
Dec 12, 2024
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Diagnostics World | A trio of publicly traded powerhouse companies—South Korea-based molecular diagnostics company Seegene, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud service provider Microsoft, and global research publisher Springer Nature—are collaborating on an ambitious technology-sharing initiative that aims to better prepare the world for the next pandemic.
Dec 11, 2024
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Diagnostics World | A number of research groups, companies, and collaboratives are pursuing breathalyzers aimed at tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases. Some of those same entities, and others, have also set their sights on applying breath-based technologies to a variety of other health concerns, including breast cancer, liver disease, gastrointestinal conditions, and lung disease.
Dec 10, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Researchers from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, have discovered a genetic signature in newborn infants that can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms show. Neonatal sepsis is difficult to diagnose because of the nonspecific clinical signs that are often considered typical behavior issues in newborns, such as difficulty feeding and irritability. Therefore, most infants are not diagnosed until they start developing or have acquired the disease.
Dec 5, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Most people in the United States have gotten no closer to malaria than the evening news, making the devasting nature of the infection in sub-Saharan Africa hard to fathom. Possibly once or more a day, people are being bitten by pathogen-carrying mosquitoes that cause untold hours of missed work and school and ultimately claim the lives of over half a million people—most of them young children.
Dec 3, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Alimetry plans to commercialize its wearable gut health monitoring device; PrognomiQ launches in vitro diagnostic; and more.
Nov 26, 2024
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Diagnostics World | NOWDiagnostics announced that its First To Know Syphilis Test, a key tool in syphilis prevention, is available for purchase nationwide; Veravas announced the results of an analytical verification study of its VeraBIND Tau assay, a next-generation test being co-developed with Phanes Biotech for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease at its earliest, most treatable stages; and more.
Nov 25, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Illumina announced an expansion of its TruSight Oncology portfolio this week at the annual meeting of the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) in Vancouver, British Columbia, with TruSight Oncology 500 v2 planned for global release in mid-2025.
Nov 21, 2024
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Diagnostics World | A team of researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, are using nanowires with machine learning analysis to detect cancer-associated miRNAs in urine. Their research findings were published last month online in Analytical Chemistry.
Nov 19, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Placental pathology has potential to reveal critical insights into pregnancy complications, yet it remains underutilized in clinical trials. By incorporating placental evaluations into clinical research, doctors could better understand and treat conditions like preeclampsia and preterm birth, which are currently diagnosed based only on clinical signs.
Nov 15, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Researchers in Israel recently showcased a novel platform that can be used in the future for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) by quantifying the distribution of alpha-synuclein (α-syn) in skin biopsies. A proof-of-concept study in humans, supported in part by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, suggests the single-molecule-level detection method might enable the disease to be detected up to 20 years before the first motor symptoms appear.
Nov 13, 2024