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Diagnostics World News I New technology has the potential for at-home immunity monitoring, novel COVID-19 test delivers results in under five minutes, Spectrum Solutions to provide saliva collection device for UK population weekly testing. Plus: Phillips, BioIntelliSense, University of Colorado receive award to validate BioSticker wearable sensor to detect early COVID-19 symptoms.
Jan 8, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Within the Diagnostics World vendor community, leaders have been working hard to synthesize what 2020 brought us and apply those learnings to 2021. Here are the full trends and predictions including pathogen surveillance, AMR, telehealth and home diagnostics, machine learning-based triage, omics for diagnostics, and supply chain reliability.
Jan 7, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | An all-in-one metagenomics test developed by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) scientists could transform the way infectious diseases are diagnosed at the point of care, irrespective of the sample type. The same technology is being adapted as a means to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2 and track down drivers of COVID-19 outbreaks at the community level.
Jan 6, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Updates from Ibex Medical Analytics and Paige on AI-assisted breast cancer diagnoses, using vocal biomarkers to diagnose pulmonary hypertension, whole genome sequencing in diagnoses, and more.
Jan 4, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | By March, the whole world was faced with a massive diagnostics problem, and companies everywhere pivoted to focus on methods for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infections quickly, accurately, and with a test that could scale. But COVID-19 diagnoses weren’t the year’s only developments. We also covered the growing trends in medical monitoring, organ-on-a-chip models, the regulatory environment for laboratory-developed tests and much more.
Dec 29, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Funding updates around the diagnostics industry including cash for glycoproteomic-powered ovarian cancer diagnostics, investments in diagnosing traumatic brain injury, digital pathology, scaled up production of QuantuMDx’s portable PCR diagnostic device, and more.
Dec 21, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | New five plex RT-qPCR test, novel amplification-free rapid SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection platform, and why temperature screening doesn’t work to diagnose or control COVID-19 spread. Plus: new SARS-CoV-2 antigen ELISA.
Dec 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | There is no question that genetic/genomic testing rapidly is becoming the gold standard of care, across clinical specialties and care settings. Genetic information serves as the patient’s lifelong signature. It can—and should—be referenced and interrogated by providers for years and decades into the future.
Dec 15, 2020
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Diagnostic World News I Two-thirds of COVID-19 patients lose sense of taste and smell, nanoPCR technology for diagnosis, biomarkers of blood vessel damage in children, sore eyes significant ocular symptom, Nanopore sequencing technology, understanding viral persistence and immune responses, and IgA antibodies dominate early neutralizing response. Plus: New testing method detects gene expression patterns, lung sound recording system prototype, healthcare workers immunity lasts several months, and combining antibody assays may yield most accurate results.
Dec 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers have been experimenting with abbreviated (aka “fast”) breast MRI for about a decade now and the consensus seems to be that it’s a cost-effective modality for screening women at intermediate risk, including those with dense breast tissue as the sole risk factor.
Dec 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A group of researchers from IBM and Pfizer has developed an AI model that uses small samples of language to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in healthy individuals.
Dec 8, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I One-third of children asymptomatic, tackling barriers in underserved communities, immune mechanism that triggers cytokine storm, assessing the needed for repeat testing, and improved positive controls for COVID-19 assays. Plus: Aggressive and early testing decreased transmission and preliminary results from Predi-COVID study.
Dec 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In a partnership seeking to exploit the genotype-phenotype connection, Agendia and Paige have announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize treatment planning for breast cancer using AI and pathology images.
Dec 3, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The eyes could be easily and inexpensively imaged to reveal the presence of neurodegenerative diseases potentially years before telltale clinical signs, suggests a growing body of research.
Dec 1, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A pair of researchers at Rice University have developed a disposable, microneedle-based biosensing platform capable of detecting malaria infection from protein biomarkers in dermal interstitial fluid. The system not only eliminates the need for finger pricks or blood draws, but also requires no manual processing and has no electronic components—making it potentially well-suited to resource-limited settings, as a point-of-care test performed at doctors’ offices and health clinics, and as a screening tool for home use by the general public.
Nov 24, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I Blood biomarkers for detection of brain injury, MRS shows white matter changes, new multiplex SARS-CoV-2 test, diaphragmatic fibrosis associated with severe COVID-19, and high-dose anticoagulants show no clear benefits. Plus: Social isolation linked to hypertension, children mount antibodies without detection of virus, and a call for more efficient and adaptive testing measures.
Nov 20, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In the U.K., it has become common practice to routinely screen people for colon cancer using a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) that measures the level of blood in the stool as opposed to going straight to a colonoscopy—long the gold standard in the U.S. Now, there is also convincing evidence that an FIT should be the first line of investigation for patients presenting with symptoms suspicious of colon cancer, as well.
Nov 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | By making colonoscopies semi-autonomous, a global team of researchers hopes to eliminate some of the key drawbacks of the procedure that have made it highly unpopular with patients.
Nov 17, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Stanford’s CRISPR-on-a-chip diagnostic, new diagnostic kit with DIY reagents, and recommendations to boost UK testing services. Plus, Oxford and Thermo Fisher join forces, Massachusetts school district plans weekly COVID-19 surveillance, and a new antibody test from EUROIMMUN.
Nov 13, 2020
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Diagnostics World NewsPhysicians could use a diagnostic device to aid clinical decision-making for patients with cancer and chronic diseases at the point of care (POC)—be that in the home, doctor’s office, or hospital emergency department.
Nov 11, 2020