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  • ‘Tissue Healing Monitors’ Creating Life-Saving Technologies

    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
  • Startup Launches Longevity-As-A-Service With Its Aging Clocks

    Diagnostics World News| 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
  • Accuracy Variability In COVID-19 Antibody Tests, Other News

    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
  • AI Used to Scan Images and Detect COVID-19

    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
  • COVID-19 Taking Its Toll Mentally, Other COVID-19 News

    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
  • Chronology Of Patient Symptoms Matters More Than Their Sum

    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
  • CHOP: Virtual Neurologic Exams A ‘Best Practice’

    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
  • Sleuthing For Answers On Rare Diseases

    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
  • Researchers Leveraging CRISPR for COVID-19 Diagnostics, Other News

    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
  • Zoom and Skype Rule Telemedicine World of Physicians

    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
  • Pink Eye Added As Possible COVID-19 Symptom, Other News and Updates

    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
  • PerkinElmer, MeMed, Genomenon, And More: News From June 2020

    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
  • Paragon Applies Amplicon Panels for Targeted Sequencing To COVID-19

    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
  • COVID-19 Prompts Telehealth Innovations

    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
  • Self-Sampling, Neurological Red Flags: The Week’s COVID-19 Updates

    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
  • Telemedicine Has Gone Viral

    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
  • Follow the Money: New Solid Cancer Monitoring Platform, Investments in High-Definition PCR

    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
  • The Great Experiment In Taking Trials Virtual

    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
  • AMP Surveys Testing Labs, Releases Recommendations For Better Pandemic Response

    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
  • Diagnostics Industry Understanding COVID-19’s Effect On Communities, Other News

    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