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Diagnostics World News | June featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including PerkinElmer, MeMed, Genomenon, and more.
Jun 25, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A key question for life sciences companies in the past few months has been how dramatically to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paragon Genomics, based in Hayward, California, believes their amplicon-based target enrichment technology for targeted sequencing provides an answer.
Jun 24, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In the wake of COVID-19, a telehealth revolution has greatly expanded the universe of tools and platforms available to a tech-ready healthcare marketplace and prompted creative repurposing of some existing technologies.
Jun 23, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Several groups have published research highlighting the neurological impacts of COVID-19, and other groups are looking into how well patients may self-assess or even self-sample for rapid diagnosis. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.
Jun 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In a matter of weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic made virtual medical visits the way many if not most physician-patient interactions happen. No one was wholly prepared for the sudden transition from in-person to on-screen visits, but some healthcare organizations were clearly better positioned to make the leap because they had already moved beyond the dabbling stage with the technology.
Jun 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | C2i Genomics closes a series A with a solid cancer monitoring platform out of New York Genome Center and Weill Cornell Medicine. ChromaCode announces another funding round and a high-def PCR test for SARS-CoV-2. Plus more of the latest funding updates from across diagnostics, life sciences, and clinical research.
Jun 17, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The necessity of running clinical studies in the midst of a pandemic broke through some of the longstanding fears of sponsors and contract research organizations about the adoption of telehealth technology and the decentralized trial model.
Jun 16, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The Association for Molecular Pathology surveyed laboratory professionals offering molecular diagnostic tests for clinical diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. They released the first findings and recommendations based on that survey last week.
Jun 15, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The diagnostics community has continued to expand their understanding of COVID-19, observing the high incidence of cases in certain populations, as well as improving blood tests for the virus.
Jun 12, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In recent months, newly published findings on topics such as family history and the role of the gut microbiome continue to shed light on colorectal cancer, and emerging tools like AI-based screening and a “smart toilet” point toward new possibilities.
Jun 9, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Research news in COVID-19 diagnostics from China’s CDC and the University of Maryland. New tools and technologies are coming from BioDot, Longhorn, and more.
Jun 5, 2020