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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
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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