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Diagnostics World News | Passive activity tracking could one day be used as a primary vital sign along with measures of body temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. The “activity index” (Ai) of patients could be valuable to physicians when evaluating patients in the emergency room with vague complaints and deciding on degree of diagnostic testing.
Apr 26, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | At the beginning of 2020, Aegis Sciences was a Nashville-based national toxicology lab, with a small biopharma lab. Today, they can do more than 110,000 COVID-19 tests per day. It’s been a busy year.
Apr 21, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Sema4 has launched a strategic partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem announcing the availability of a system-wide data-driven genomics program that uses predictive analytics to help clinicians and patients prevent, detect, and treat diseases at an early stage.
Apr 19, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | A UK company has released Drug Ranking Using Machine Learning (DRUML), an open-source ensemble of predictive models trained for drugs with different modes of action that can help clinicians pick the most appropriate cancer drugs for individual patients from among most (412 of 659) of the options now available.
Apr 14, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | A new study led by University of Minnesota Medical School researchers suggests that Pap test samples and cervical swabs may be a useful source of tumor-specific biomarkers for ovarian cancer, and the group sees potential for the development of an early detection test.
Apr 13, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | A year into COVID-19, we see that it has cast an unexpected spotlight on digital pathology. It has accelerated adoption as laboratories’ ability to operate has increasingly become tied to their digital footprint. In doing so, it has also laid the foundation for laboratories to realize the benefits of the digital transformation beyond remote work, positioning them to meet future challenges and capitalize on the opportunity ahead.
Apr 9, 2021
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Diagnostic World News | Getting a diagnosis right when diseases share symptoms or co-occur due to advanced age or unhealthy habits may require a more holistic view of the situation than can be gleaned from the typical physician-patient encounter.
Apr 6, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Paige nets another influx of cash for AI-based pathology, and Inflammatix closes a round for its novel immune-response diagnostics portfolio. Investments in point-of-care diagnostics and liquid biopsies. And new investment funds for late-stage companies and public health.
Apr 1, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Color Health is adding its voice to calling for more granularity in how we name and track SARS-CoV-2 variants says Alicia Zhou, Chief Scientific Officer at Color. “There really is a difference between tracking variants versus tracking lineages,” Zhou told Diagnostics World.
Mar 30, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | The Association for Molecular Pathology released survey results outlining the effort required to interpret molecular tests. As the menu of—and demand for—molecular tests grow, so does the burden of effort and cost associated with interpretation and results reporting. Reimbursement isn’t keeping up, AMP claims.
Mar 29, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Last week a research team published a 22-item framework in Nature that identifies the minimal polygenic risk score-related information that scientists should include in their studies.
Mar 25, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | The suicide rate in the United States is increasing. Suicide prevention begins with risk identification, but it is impossible to screen all of the individuals within a healthcare system. Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers develop an AI tool that can screen EHRs and flag at-risk patients.
Mar 22, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | XPRIZE has announced five winning teams in the $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the winning solutions are radically affordable compared to what is currently available on the market, and are comparable to commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity, and limit of detection—with a maximum turnaround time of 12 hours from sample to result.
Mar 17, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Experts in basic medical sciences, biomedical engineering, and physics at Purdue University have collaborated to develop Doppler spectroscopy—the technique used to reveal the existence of extrasolar planetary systems—to study bacterial invasions of healthy tissue.
Mar 16, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Top COVID-19 news and research stories of the week: are symptom checkers helping or hurting? Could we stop the virus if everyone started weekly testing? And Thermo digs into mutations.
Mar 12, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Nanoengineering experts at the University of California (UC), San Diego have succeeded in developing an all-in-one health monitoring device that can reliably measure glucose, lactate, and blood pressure using a soft, stretchy skin patch the size of a postage stamp.
Mar 10, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | New acquisitions and partnerships for Charles River, Illumina gets Russian approval, Lumos Diagnostics signs Canadian partnership, digital twin consortium, and more.
Mar 8, 2021
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Diagnostics World News I Axillary adenopathy observed in some women after vaccination, specialized DNA probes analyze RNA sequences with more precision, new approach to pooled testing, elevated neutrophil biomarkers could predict severe outcomes, and two new calculators assess risk of in-hospital mortality or need for mechanical ventilation Plus: Coronavirus-like nanoparticles could serve as new positive controls for COVID-19 testing and a wastewater surveillance system in San Diego proves to be efficient and cost-effective.
Mar 5, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Houston Methodist and MD Anderson Cancer Center have come up with a mathematical model for estimating the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy and, unlike most existing predictive tools in the clinic, it factors time into the equation.
Mar 4, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | For many kinds of cancer, lifestyle and environmental factors are thought to be important drivers of disease risk. With prostate cancer, it’s a different story. So an international effort is seeking to develop a polygenic risk score that can better predict who is at risk of developing prostate cancer.
Mar 2, 2021