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Diagnostics World News | Saliva for early lunch cancer detection, new guidelines for diagnosis of bleeding disorder, Babson claims fingerstick diagnostics in a retail setting, and looking at Alzheimer’s. Plus: companion diagnostic agreements, and genomic sequencing for prenatal testing.
Jan 28, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have discovered a way to pinpoint a subset of prostate cancer patients with aggressive tumors who may benefit from combined immune-radiotherapy modalities. The answer gets computed from a combination of the immune content score (ICS) and the 22-gene Decipher classifier score that is predictive of metastasis.
Jan 25, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Quantified smell loss the best predictor of COVID-19 among those with symptoms, the outlook for self-tests, circulating mitochondria as a warning of severe disease, and more. Plus: QIAGEN’s PCR test stands up to new variants, new development on tests to distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.
Jan 22, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Cancer tries its hardest not to be found. Seeking to better understand the early tumor micro-environment may prove to be a powerful harbinger of early cancer development. In our quest for early cancer detection, we should look more closely at the complex and potentially detectable changes in the micro-environment surrounding the tumor.
Jan 19, 2021
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Diagnostics World News I Princeton University spin-off launches AI COVID screening tool, new antibody test helps select donor blood samples for therapeutic use, concerns raised over UK’s rollout of rapid asymptomatic testing, and Wuhan study finds symptoms linger for many. Plus: FDA grants EUA for high-volume antigen test and asymptomatic testing, new simplified COVID-19 testing method, and nanomaterial-based biosensing platform detects COVID-19 antibodies in seconds.
Jan 15, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | At the 39th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco today, Illumina CEO Francis deSouza outlined Illumina’s take on the genomics market, focusing heavily on a rosy outlook for clinical genomics.
Jan 12, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Valencell today announced that its calibration-free, cuffless blood pressure (BP) technology for wearables is now able to be used in devices worn on the finger and wrist including smartwatches, fitness bands, patches and pulse oximeter finger clips.
Jan 12, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Energy-generating bacteria, only in recent years leveraged to power biobatteries, have now been deployed for paper-based biosensing of antibiotic effectiveness. The innovative twist here is a high-throughput antimicrobial susceptibility testing device that eliminates the need for lab culturing and provides actionable results within five hours.
Jan 11, 2021
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Diagnostics World News I New technology has the potential for at-home immunity monitoring, novel COVID-19 test delivers results in under five minutes, Spectrum Solutions to provide saliva collection device for UK population weekly testing. Plus: Phillips, BioIntelliSense, University of Colorado receive award to validate BioSticker wearable sensor to detect early COVID-19 symptoms.
Jan 8, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Within the Diagnostics World vendor community, leaders have been working hard to synthesize what 2020 brought us and apply those learnings to 2021. Here are the full trends and predictions including pathogen surveillance, AMR, telehealth and home diagnostics, machine learning-based triage, omics for diagnostics, and supply chain reliability.
Jan 7, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | An all-in-one metagenomics test developed by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) scientists could transform the way infectious diseases are diagnosed at the point of care, irrespective of the sample type. The same technology is being adapted as a means to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2 and track down drivers of COVID-19 outbreaks at the community level.
Jan 6, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Updates from Ibex Medical Analytics and Paige on AI-assisted breast cancer diagnoses, using vocal biomarkers to diagnose pulmonary hypertension, whole genome sequencing in diagnoses, and more.
Jan 4, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | By March, the whole world was faced with a massive diagnostics problem, and companies everywhere pivoted to focus on methods for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infections quickly, accurately, and with a test that could scale. But COVID-19 diagnoses weren’t the year’s only developments. We also covered the growing trends in medical monitoring, organ-on-a-chip models, the regulatory environment for laboratory-developed tests and much more.
Dec 29, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Funding updates around the diagnostics industry including cash for glycoproteomic-powered ovarian cancer diagnostics, investments in diagnosing traumatic brain injury, digital pathology, scaled up production of QuantuMDx’s portable PCR diagnostic device, and more.
Dec 21, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | New five plex RT-qPCR test, novel amplification-free rapid SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection platform, and why temperature screening doesn’t work to diagnose or control COVID-19 spread. Plus: new SARS-CoV-2 antigen ELISA.
Dec 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | There is no question that genetic/genomic testing rapidly is becoming the gold standard of care, across clinical specialties and care settings. Genetic information serves as the patient’s lifelong signature. It can—and should—be referenced and interrogated by providers for years and decades into the future.
Dec 15, 2020
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Diagnostic World News I Two-thirds of COVID-19 patients lose sense of taste and smell, nanoPCR technology for diagnosis, biomarkers of blood vessel damage in children, sore eyes significant ocular symptom, Nanopore sequencing technology, understanding viral persistence and immune responses, and IgA antibodies dominate early neutralizing response. Plus: New testing method detects gene expression patterns, lung sound recording system prototype, healthcare workers immunity lasts several months, and combining antibody assays may yield most accurate results.
Dec 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers have been experimenting with abbreviated (aka “fast”) breast MRI for about a decade now and the consensus seems to be that it’s a cost-effective modality for screening women at intermediate risk, including those with dense breast tissue as the sole risk factor.
Dec 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A group of researchers from IBM and Pfizer has developed an AI model that uses small samples of language to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in healthy individuals.
Dec 8, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I One-third of children asymptomatic, tackling barriers in underserved communities, immune mechanism that triggers cytokine storm, assessing the needed for repeat testing, and improved positive controls for COVID-19 assays. Plus: Aggressive and early testing decreased transmission and preliminary results from Predi-COVID study.
Dec 4, 2020