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Diagnostics World Brief | A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening.
Jul 10, 2018
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STAT | A new study suggests not offering mammograms to women at low risk for breast cancer might reduce the harms of screening while maintaining the benefits.
Jul 5, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Massimo Cristofanilli of Northwestern University is featured on this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit. Cristofanilli shares his perspective on the future of liquid biopsy, the complementary purposes of CTC and cfDNA technologies, and when one should expect clinical utility of liquid biopsies.
Jul 3, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | Today, Cloudera and MetiStream announced products to improve patient outcomes. MetiStream also announced it is introducing an end-to-end interactive analytics platform for healthcare and life science industries built on Cloudera’s machine learning platform.
Jul 2, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Continued growth and progress is needed in the hard-fought battle against HIV—and developing innovative diagnostics to create an effective first line of defense against HIV is crucial.
Jun 28, 2018
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Diagnostics World | June featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Myriad Genetics, the Mayo Clinic, Qure.ai, and more.
Jun 27, 2018
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Diagnostics World | In just a few months, members of the diagnostic community will converge in Washington, DC for the 10th annual Next Generation Dx Summit. Here are just a few of the sessions we have highlighted as we prepare for another great summit.
Jun 26, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | PerkinElmer announced that its EUROIMMUN Crithidia luciliae immunofluorescence test (CLIFT) and CLIFT sensitive assays have received FDA 510(k) clearance.
Jun 22, 2018
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Diagnostics World | GeneCapture, a diagnostics company based at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala., announced a two-year, $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer Research contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
Jun 20, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Alexion, in collaboration with EPAM, has developed a software competition platform to allow the objective comparison of contributed algorithms for automated rare disease diagnosis.
Jun 19, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | The Rare Genomics Institute is delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) science challenge, a global competition that offers rare disease researchers, who traditionally have difficulty attracting funding, grants of the latest life science innovations and technologies.
Jun 14, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Paul Yager of University of Washington is featured on this podcast from Cambridge Health Tech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostic Summit. Yager speaks about his lab’s success in developing NAAT testing, obstacles to developing low cost diagnostics, and advice for those looking to get into the field.
Jun 13, 2018