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Diagnostics World Brief | Researchers are launching the first study of its kind involving up to 10,000 women that will use a new test to identify those at risk for premature birth, and, in those with high risk, to evaluate the impact of early interventions designed to prolong their pregnancy and reduce the rate of premature delivery.
Jun 12, 2018
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Forbes | A new saliva-based test for prostate cancer can identify men at increased risk of developing the disease at a cost of less than $100.
Jun 11, 2018
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Diagnostics World | While the gut may be a central location for many of our microbes, trillions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses reside all over our bodies. They live in our mouths, inhabit our noses, and even populate the surface of our largest organ. So some researchers are taking aim at the skin microbiome.
Jun 6, 2018
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Diagnostics World | A PhD candidate at UC Berkley is using saliva to screen for lung cancer.
Jun 4, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Poverty-stricken, war-torn, and largely rural, the African country of Sudan is not exactly a likely setting for high tech work, so at first glance, proposing a high-flying, next-generation sequencing study in a place like this seems bizarre at best. And yet, there is good reason to pursue research in this corner of the world despite the laundry list of challenges.
May 30, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Last week the World Health Organization released its first list of essential diagnostic tests to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes. The WHO’s Essential Diagnostics List is a catalogue of the tests needed to diagnose the world’s most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases. The diagnostics industry has welcomed the list, and national governments have already begun developing their local lists.
May 24, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief Today, less than a month after opening national enrollment, the All of Us Research Program issued a call for Genome Centers able to generate genotype and whole genome sequence data from participants’ biosamples. The program anticipates funding up to two Genome Center awards in FY2018, with analyses to begin this fall.
May 23, 2018
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Diagnostics World | May featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including numares, BBI Solutions, Nanobiotix, and more.
May 23, 2018
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Bio-IT World | During his keynote presentation at the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Mark Boguski discussed precision medicine, diagnostic management, and recent plans to work with Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) on a population health project created from scratch.
May 22, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | While great effort is going into developing sepsis diagnostics that do a better job of identifying the pathogen responsible, little attention has been paid to another area that stands to have a significant impact on sepsis care: triage. Triage diagnostics that would rapidly identify patients with sepsis would be an important new tool in the fight against this health threat — even more so if they could be performed at the point of care.
May 16, 2018
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The DNA Exchange | Following the news of a Chicago NBC News reporter who submitted a DNA sample from his dog to the laboratory Orig3n for analysis, a genetic counselor recalls her experience submitting swabs from her dog and her kitchen sink for Orig3n’s “Bloom Child Development” test.
May 14, 2018
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OPB | An artificial intelligence system is better than most experts at diagnosing a childhood blindness disease, according to a new study from Oregon Health and Science University.
May 14, 2018