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  • Dopamine Detection Device Offers Faster and Direct Detection

    Diagnostics World News | The world of medicine is continually seeking new methods to improve health outcomes through a variety of innovative mechanisms, and accelerated diagnostics is no exception. Now, scientists may have a faster, easier way to diagnose and catch certain diseases earlier thanks to a new dopamine detector.

    Oct 24, 2019
  • Mixed Opinions On How To Regulate Laboratory Developed Tests

    Diagnostics World News | A trio of sessions at the 2019 Next Generation Dx Summit in August focused on laboratory developed tests (LDTs)—in vitro diagnostic tests designed, manufactured and used within a single laboratory—and incited lively debate about proposed regulation under the VALID Act.

    Oct 22, 2019
  • Engineered Viruses Could Fight Drug Resistance

    MIT News | MIT biological engineers can program bacteriophages to kill different strains of E. coli by making mutations in the protein that the viruses use to bind to host cells. These engineered phages are less likely to provoke resistance in bacteria, and could help to overcome antibiotic resistance.

    Oct 21, 2019
  • Sensors in Diagnostics: A Preview of the Sensors Summit

    Diagnostics World News | Sensors are revolutionizing healthcare and the presenters at the Sensors Summit 2019 are taking three days to show just how much.

    Oct 17, 2019
  • Working Out The Riddles Of Adaptive Machine Learning

    Diagnostics World News | At the 2019 Next Generation Dx Summit in August, a staff fellow with the FDA shared the agency's approach to evaluating medical devices enabled by "adaptive" artificial intelligence and machine learning—meaning they continuously learn as they're exposed to more data.

    Oct 16, 2019
  • FDA’s Evolving Approach to In Vitro Diagnostics

    Diagnostics World News | The FDA has been unusually busy over the past two years on programs and projects advancing regulatory science around in vitro diagnostics, including digital pathology.

    Oct 15, 2019
  • Mortality Rate For Men With Breast Cancer Soars Over Women's

    STAT | Men account for about 1% or less of all breast cancer diagnoses in the U.S., yet male breast cancer patients have a 19% higher mortality rate than their diagnosed female counterparts, according to a recent study in JAMA Oncology.

    Oct 11, 2019
  • No Crystal Ball On Future Of Point-Of-Care Testing

    Diagnostics World News | Due to opposing market forces and technology innovation in both the central lab and point-of-care diagnostics settings, overall diagnostic testing is trending more slowly toward decentralization than some might expect, according to Berkeley, California-based diagnostics consultant Lucy Hattingh.

    Oct 10, 2019
  • QIAGEN, Illumina Partner to Deliver Sequencing-Based IVD Tests

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Illumina and QIAGEN announced a 15-year partnership intended to broaden the availability and use of NGS-based in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) kits, including companion diagnostics, for patient management.

    Oct 9, 2019
  • AI-Driven Diagnostic Hub Reimagines Primary Care

    Diagnostics World News | Ativa Medical created buzz at last month's Next Generation Dx Summit in Washington, D.C. with a presentation about its workhorse point-of-care (POC) device being developed expressly for primary care.

    Oct 8, 2019
  • New Test For Thyroid Cancer Could Prevent Unnecessary Surgery

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new preoperative test for thyroid cancer that is faster and about two-thirds more accurate than the diagnostic tests doctors use today.

    Oct 7, 2019
  • Congenica Expands Data Sources With DECIPHER, Mastermind Inclusions

    Diagnostics World News | Congenica today announced the integration of new reference data sources into its clinical decision support platform: data from DECIPHER and a partnership with Genomenon and its Mastermind solution.

    Oct 2, 2019
  • FemtoDx, PGDx, Illumina, and More: News From September 2019

    Diagnostics World News | September featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including FemtoDx, PGDx, Illumina, and more.

    Sep 30, 2019