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Diagnostics World Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community including news from the Rare Genomics Institute, Good Start Genetics, HudsonAlpha, and more.
Dec 20, 2016
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MobiHealthNews |
Scanadu, a personal health scanner company that shattered records on Indiegogo a few years ago, has raised $6.5 million according to an SEC filing.
Dec 19, 2016
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Diagnostics World Brief | Roche is terminating its agreement with Pacific Bioscience. The biotech doesn’t intend to pursue efforts to develop a sequencing instrument for use in the clinical research and clinical market using PacBio’s Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) technology. Roche retains no rights to the technology and PacBio is free to approach any market segments with their SMRT technology.
Dec 15, 2016
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Today’s healthcare decisions are becoming more and more reliant on molecular diagnostic tests. It is incumbent upon diagnostic platform developers to design instruments and assays that give customers more value for their investment.
Dec 15, 2016
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STAT |
Startup Scanadu raised $1.5 million from eager customers to launch a real-life version of a "Star Trek" tricorder. Now it's shutting down the devices.
Dec 15, 2016
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TechCrunch |
Medical startup Scanadu informed customers today it will no longer support its Scout device starting May 15, 2017. The reason? Though Scanadu has been working with FDA, it seems Scout didn't make the cut.
Dec 14, 2016
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STAT |
President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law today. Surrounded by Vice President Joe Biden and the bipartisan lawmakers who helped push the bill through, Obama commented, "It's a good day to see us doing our jobs."
Dec 13, 2016
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CBS News |
Quest Diagnostics says a hack of an internet application on its network has exposed the personal health information of about 34,000 people.
Dec 13, 2016
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Forbes |
In a country where there's a shortage of doctors, let alone radiologists, iBreastExam has everything it takes to be a major disruptor in India's healthcare sector. It can examine 100,000 patients at the same cost that a mammogram tests 15,000 patients.
Dec 12, 2016
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Novogene, AITbiotech, and the Genome Institute of Singapore announced today that NovogeneAIT Genomics Singapore, a new joint venture between Novogene and AITbiotech, will establish a joint whole genome sequencing center at Biopolis, Singapore.
Dec 9, 2016
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Diagnostics World News Brief The fourth annual Advances in Prenatal Molecular Diagnostics Conference took place last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference featured lectures from prominent experts in the field of gene sequencing and NIPT. Here are some highlights from the lectures and panels from the conference.
Dec 9, 2016
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MIT Technology Review |
Many genetic conditions come with clues in a person's face, and new technology can help doctors diagnose them.
Dec 6, 2016
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Forbes |
Diagnosing hereditary disorders by sequencing the genomes of newborn babies.
Dec 2, 2016
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Business Insider India |
IBM Watson Health and the Radiological Society of North America teamed up on a project called "Eyes of Watson," on display at the RSNA conference this week in Chicago. The demonstration is meant to show radiologists how Watson evaluates X-ray images, from start to finish.
Dec 2, 2016
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Illumina today announced the iHope program, a philanthropic initiative aimed at identifying the genetic causes of undiagnosed rare diseases in children.
Dec 1, 2016
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Diagnostics World News Briefs | News, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community including news from Baylor, Ancestry, and N-of-One.
Nov 23, 2016
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Diagnostics World News | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put its plan on hold to regulate laboratory-developed tests, waiting instead for input from the new Presidential administration and the new Congress. The Association of Molecular Pathologists applauds.
Nov 21, 2016
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STAT |
There are tantalizing hints that women respond differently to concussion, perhaps due to hormonal cycles. What's needed now: more female brains to study.
Nov 21, 2016
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Diagnostics World News Brief | A team of researchers have developed a novel computational approach to unravel the complexity of breast cancer tumors. The strategy allows researchers to identify the different types of cells in the tumor and to unveil how the interactions between cancer and normal cells may shape the fate of the tumor.
Nov 17, 2016
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Diagnostics World | As precision medicine initiatives pop up across the globe, Beijing-based genome sequencing firm Novogene looks to capitalize on efforts to tailor treatments.
Nov 17, 2016