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Diagnostics World News | Oregon Health & Science University researchers created a new imaging technique to predict at-risk pregnancies with funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Human Placenta Project.
Aug 25, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The clinical utility of genetic testing has been newly redefined to reflect the realities of modern cancer care. The education, advocacy, and evidence-developing organization, Personalized Medicine Coalition, championed efforts to pen the update through a roundtable event sponsored by Genentech.
Aug 24, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The Mayo Clinic has made a discovery that could help explain why some people who get infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus suffer badly while others feel only mildly ill.
Aug 24, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Meeting the needs of patients, providers, and payers will be key to overcoming the limitations of current point-of-care testing methods. Many of the longstanding obstacles—including limited research funding, dependency on central labs, and general unfamiliarity with diagnostic testing—have already been resolved by the ongoing pandemic.
Aug 23, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Radiomics-based machine learning models have been shown to do an impressive job of detecting pancreatic cancer on pre-diagnostic CT scans several months before symptoms appear, suggesting that one day the disease will more often be diagnosed at a stage where a surgical cure may be possible.
Aug 23, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Numerous studies have confirmed the reliability of rapid, comprehensive molecular diagnostic panels for identifying antimicrobial resistance markers. With advances in molecular diagnostic testing methods, relying on culture results alone is no longer an adequate approach.
Aug 19, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | An MIT engineering team invented a new ultrasound sticker, enabling continuous high-resolution imaging for up to 48 hours.
Aug 18, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A Yale-based diagnostics initiative is building a nationwide network of clinical laboratories embracing an open-source testing protocol for COVID-19 using saliva. Ultimately, the labs could become important players in public health responses to pandemics of the future and, perhaps more immediately, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
Aug 17, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Evidence is emerging that long COVID (formally “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection,” or PASC) bears a striking, molecular-level resemblance to the disabling and complex illness now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
Aug 16, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Contact lenses may have first arrived to help correct vision impairments, but new tech advances are transforming this familiar product into a tool capable of far more.
Aug 11, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published Phenopackets, a standard initially developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and championed at ISO under the Canadian Mirror Committee to ISO/TC215/SC1 Genomics informatics, and supported by the Standards Council of Canada.
Aug 10, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers in Germany have developed a web-based tool, powered by machine learning, which extracts disease subtypes from large pools of patient data. The goal is more precise and robust predictions about molecular signatures that can serve as a starting point for investigating disease heterogeneity.
Aug 9, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The National Institute of Standards and Technology has produced a reference material for use as a positive control when developing monkeypox diagnostic tests. The reference material marks the success of a proof-of-concept test and marks a shift in thinking at NIST since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 4, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A team of researchers from Brown University are in the process of developing a simple, inexpensive, portable device to electrically dissociate tissues into viable single cells. They’ve published the work in Scientific Reports, and foresee the approach being useful in both clinical diagnostics and basic scientific research.
Aug 2, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | PerkinElmer announced this morning its intent to divest its Applied, Food, and Enterprise businesses through an agreement with New Mountain Capital. At the close of the deal, expected in the first quarter of 2023, the Analytical and Enterprise Solutions business will likely retain the PerkinElmer name and brand. The Life Sciences and Diagnostics business will be rebranded.
Aug 1, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A pioneering low-cost device captures three-dimensional images for eye screening; exceptionally sensitive hybridization capture-based technology integrates into diagnostic exams; a new institute plans to develop at least ten new drugs or diagnostic approaches for heart and lung disease within five years; and more.
Jul 28, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Funding for innovative genetic risk and disposition score analyses, whole-genome sequencing, a centralized patient data network, and more.
Jul 27, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The COVID-19 pandemic is ushering in an era of self-testing that has been at least a decade in the making. Despite the evidence, it took a public health crisis to finally convince most clinicians that the benefits of self-swabbing with an at-home test kit outweigh any of the potential problems. Before long, multiple studies emerged showing patients did just as well as clinicians with rapid self-testing whether observed or unobserved.
Jul 21, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Bile duct cancer is a complex and rapidly progressing disease often deemed terminal at the time of diagnosis. However, a research team at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology discovered nanopore-based DNA computing technology as a means of early cancer detection and improved patient outcomes.
Jul 20, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | It is now the expectation if not the reality that companion diagnostics (CDx) be approved concurrently with their corresponding therapeutic product. Multiple countries are quickly adopting policies and regulations for drug-diagnostic co-development and common themes are emerging about how a CDx should be clinically validated. At the upcoming Next Generation Dx Summit, speakers will explore the evolving global regulatory landscape for diagnostics and the impacts on co-development programs, as well as strategies for navigating the changing environment.
Jul 19, 2022