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Diagnostics World News | Although artificial intelligence has generated plenty of buzz in biomedical research, thought leaders at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco last week showed that it’s more than just a flashy catchphrase.
Mar 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Human Longevity Inc. launched six years ago with the goal of building a million-genome database replete with phenotypic and clinical data but is now laser focused on helping its clients live to be 100.
Mar 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Data is the most valuable resource on the market today, and there’s a lot of it. When it comes to processing health data, the solution may be neural networks. Not AI to replace doctors, says Eric Topol, but AI to empower doctors.
Mar 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Co-Diagnostics presented their new rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19 yesterday at the Molecular Medicine TriConference in San Francisco. The Salt Lake City, Utah, diagnostics company is among the many companies working on a rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19.
Mar 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | QIAGEN has been acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in a deal valued at $11.5 billion, which includes the assumption of approximately $1.4 billion of net debt.
Mar 3, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | An international group of scientists has discovered a previously unknown autoinflammatory disease and identified its underlying biological origin.
Mar 3, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | February featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, NeuMoDx Molecular, Proscia, and more.
Feb 27, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The National Institutes of Health today launched a $1 million Technology Accelerator Challenge to spur the design and development of non-invasive, handheld, digital technologies to detect, diagnose, and guide therapies for diseases with high global and public health impact. The challenge is focused on sickle cell disease, malaria, and anemia
Feb 26, 2020
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Credo Diagnostics Biomedical announced they are now finalizing a rapid point-of-care molecular test to detect the novel coronavirus in 20 minutes.
Feb 26, 2020
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Diagnostics World News| Radiology is increasingly the key to synthesizing real world evidence with sufficient quality to shape drug performance. As a diagnostic toolset, imaging is one of the oldest and most widely used and clearly interpreted methods for measurement of outcomes. It is regularly used to measure disease progression and to determine the effectiveness of medical interventions. Imaging is also a common mechanism for early identification of disease that can be automated or extended through artificial intelligence (AI).
Feb 20, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Some big investments are driving CRISPR-based diagnostics, cell therapies, sepsis diagnostics and more this year.
Feb 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | CRISPR applications are exploding, and Can Dincer, with the Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT) and Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees uniquely powerful applications for point-of-care diagnostics.
Feb 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The same technology that propels the world’s fastest electric train at speeds up to 267 miles per hour is now being used for the first time to levitate proteins in plasma for diagnostic purposes—and tease out differences between healthy and diseased plasma donors.
Feb 14, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Angela Pia Sanzone, Blood Biomarkers Group Leader, Advanced Therapies Division, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), UK, is working with the World Health Organization on international reference standards for ctDNA that will enable harmonized reporting in diagnostics and patient monitoring.
Feb 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | In order to achieve the goal of truly tailoring therapy regimens to patient’s molecular profiles, it’s imperative that we overcome challenges and move into the next era of biomarker and diagnostic development.
Feb 7, 2020
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Diagnostics World News Brief | The diagnostic community has been quick to respond to the recent outbreak of coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. Companies have announced commitments to combating the virus, either through funding or technology application.
Feb 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The FDA’s Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research discusses the obstacles in developing gene therapies, emerging developments in the field, and the regulatory landscape surrounding personalized therapeutics.
Feb 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | With the outbreak and fast spread of Novel Coronavirus, including at least 106 deaths, as of Tuesday morning, the question on everyone’s mind is “Can the 2019-nCoV virus be contained?”
Feb 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | January featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Charles River, TriSalus, BioIVT, and more.
Jan 30, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The forthcoming Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference and Bio-IT World WEST conference will host the inaugural Bioinformatics Pipelines for Preclinical Drug Discovery Hackathon in San Francisco.
Jan 29, 2020