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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | There is still a significant unmet need to reveal layers of internal processes to inform current blind spots in clinical decision making. One of the areas currently sorely lacking in available data is post-operative wound and tissue healing.
Jul 21, 2020
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Newly launched Deep Longevity, a spinoff of Insilico Medicine, will be using artificial intelligence (AI) AI to tackle age-related diseases using a constellation of “aging clocks” as yardsticks of health and the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions and dietary supplements—as well as develop new aging clocks in collaboration with concierge longevity practice Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI).
Jul 17, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A new peer-reviewed study by researchers at NSF International and Novateur Ventures finds significant variability in the accuracy of currently available COVID-19 antibody tests. This, plus more, are included in this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jul 16, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Several groups across the globe are pursuing the combination of chest imaging and artificial intelligence to improve workflow efficiency, support clinical decision-making, and slow the spread of COVID-19.
Jul 14, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The mental health burden associated with COVID-19 is considerable among the general population of China, highlighting the demand for interventions. Elsewhere, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new material that can aid in the evaluation and development of diagnostic assays for SARS-CoV-2. This, plus more, are included in this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jul 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Connecting information from electronic health records over time can tell a better story of patients’ current and future health than the “black box” of deep learning.
Jul 8, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have conducted the first sizable study examining the quality of child neurology telehealth outpatient care and concluded the approach is “feasible and effective” for about 95% of patient visits.
Jul 7, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Rare diseases are just that—atypical conditions that physicians might never encounter and, if they did, would likely stump them about what to do next. But in the aggregate, rare diseases are inching closer to big-disease status as a result of strategic collaboration and whole genome sequencing, which has helped grow their cumulative number beyond the 7,000 mark.
Jul 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers have discovered that when it comes to antibody test for COVID-19, timing is everything. A strategic partnership is leveraging CRISPR technology for a rapid, point-of-care diagnostic test. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jul 2, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The shift from face-to-face patient visits to remote medical appointments is a worldwide phenomenon, but most especially in the U.S., finds a recent global survey conducted by the doctors-only social networking platform Sermo.
Jun 30, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Clinician-scientists have identified pink eye as a possible primary symptom of COVID-19. Meanwhile, a new pilot study is exploring the development of a low-cost, rapid, COVID-19 diagnosis system using simulant fluorescently labelled RNA. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jun 26, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | June featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including PerkinElmer, MeMed, Genomenon, and more.
Jun 25, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A key question for life sciences companies in the past few months has been how dramatically to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paragon Genomics, based in Hayward, California, believes their amplicon-based target enrichment technology for targeted sequencing provides an answer.
Jun 24, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In the wake of COVID-19, a telehealth revolution has greatly expanded the universe of tools and platforms available to a tech-ready healthcare marketplace and prompted creative repurposing of some existing technologies.
Jun 23, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Several groups have published research highlighting the neurological impacts of COVID-19, and other groups are looking into how well patients may self-assess or even self-sample for rapid diagnosis. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jun 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In a matter of weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic made virtual medical visits the way many if not most physician-patient interactions happen. No one was wholly prepared for the sudden transition from in-person to on-screen visits, but some healthcare organizations were clearly better positioned to make the leap because they had already moved beyond the dabbling stage with the technology.
Jun 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | C2i Genomics closes a series A with a solid cancer monitoring platform out of New York Genome Center and Weill Cornell Medicine. ChromaCode announces another funding round and a high-def PCR test for SARS-CoV-2. Plus more of the latest funding updates from across diagnostics, life sciences, and clinical research.
Jun 17, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The necessity of running clinical studies in the midst of a pandemic broke through some of the longstanding fears of sponsors and contract research organizations about the adoption of telehealth technology and the decentralized trial model.
Jun 16, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The Association for Molecular Pathology surveyed laboratory professionals offering molecular diagnostic tests for clinical diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. They released the first findings and recommendations based on that survey last week.
Jun 15, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The diagnostics community has continued to expand their understanding of COVID-19, observing the high incidence of cases in certain populations, as well as improving blood tests for the virus.
Jun 12, 2020