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  • For Health Applications, Microbiome Research Needs a Tech Transformation

    Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | Despite remarkable potential, microbiome research—and the diagnostics and therapeutics that will one day be developed based on these findings—is severely limited by century-old microbiology tools.

    Sep 13, 2019
  • Problems Aplenty Employing Point-Of-Care Devices In Clinical Settings

    Diagnostics World News | Clinical perspectives on point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testing was the subject of a lively panel session at the recent Next-Generation Dx Summit. Major themes were how implementations can go right—or terribly wrong—and the dubious practice of confirmatory testing.

    Sep 11, 2019
  • AI Tool Detects Diabetes-Related Eye Condition Without Human Interpretation

    Diagnostics World News | Last year, IDx-DR became the first-ever so-called "autonomous AI" system cleared by the FDA to provide a screening decision without the oversight of a doctor. Since then, IDx Technologies, the company behind the product, has begun to roll out this tool designed to detect diabetic retinopathy.

    Sep 6, 2019
  • An Artificial Intelligence Twist On Symptom Checkers

    Diagnostics World News | Buoy is taking an AI-driven approach to fixing the front line of healthcare: the internet, where most patients go to answer two pivotal questions: "What do I have?" and "How do I fix it?"

    Sep 4, 2019
  • Guiding Principles For Academic-Industry Partnerships

    Diagnostics World News | Dwindling government funds for research and development has universities doing everything possible to maximize returns on what taxpayer-supported grants bring in.

    Sep 3, 2019
  • Shield Diagnostics, GNA Biosolutions, Quantabio, And More: News From August 2019

    Diagnostics World News | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Shield Diagnostics, GNA Biosolutions, Quantabio, and more.

    Aug 29, 2019
  • Prenatal Diagnosis Study Validates PerkinElmer’s Fully Automated NIPT Platform

    Diagnostics World News Brief | PerkinElmer announced that its Vanadis fully automated non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) system has been validated in an external clinical study published in Prenatal Diagnosis.

    Aug 27, 2019
  • New Liquid Biopsy Chip Overcomes Limitations Of Current Devices

    Diagnostics World News | Carbon nanotubes have found practical application in everything from aircraft parts to tennis rackets and baseball bats since their discovery in 1991. Now, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have used the wonder material to create a liquid biopsy chip that can snare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) of all sizes and types in a stationary drop of blood, and reliably detect more of them than existing microfluidic technologies.

    Aug 20, 2019
  • U.K. Firm Creates Operating System To Handle Massive Genomic Patient Data Sets

    Forbes | We're making work digital on every desktop, we're empowering digital sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) on every street corner, we're building smart digital AI-powered IT systems with machine learning and decision-making abilities to automate our lives… and we're digitizing ourselves as well.

    Aug 16, 2019