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Diagnostics World | AliveCor today announced Food and Drug Administration clearance of KardiaBand in the U.S., a band for the Apple Watch with an embedded electrocardiogram device.
Nov 30, 2017
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Xconomy | This year, money has been funneling into companies that apply artificial intelligence to healthcare, from diagnostics to speech recognition software. The latest recipient is New York-based Prognos, which says it just closed a $20.5 million Series C round from a group of prominent insurers, drug makers, and venture capital investors.
Nov 28, 2017
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The DNA Exchange |
Ilana Löwy's new book, Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects & Prenatal Diagnosis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) is more than just a recitation of discoveries and events. The author, an emerita research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, argues that prenatal testing can best be understood in the context of Michel Foucault's concept of a dispositif - loosely speaking, the institutions, social factors, laws, regulations, scientific and professional practices that create, maintain, and reinforce a body of knowledge and give it power.
Nov 28, 2017
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Diagnostics World | Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference will celebrate its 25th anniversary next February in San Francisco. Here are a few of the talks we’ve marked so far.
Nov 27, 2017
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NBC News | With the holiday season in full swing, Sen. Chuck Schumer said customers may be putting their genetic information at risk of being sold to third parties.
Nov 27, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Illumina announced today that the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, Patents Court in the United Kingdom issued a judgment in its favor in the patent infringement suit filed against Premaitha Health and Ariosa Diagnostics for non-invasive prenatal tests.
Nov 21, 2017
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Xconomy | Genomenon, a University of Michigan spinout developing analytics and data visualization software for the genomics industry, last week announced it has created an evidence-based cancer gene panel using automated machine learning techniques.
Nov 21, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) published 17 consensus recommendations to help clinical laboratory professionals achieve high-quality sequencing results and deliver better patient care. The report, “Standards and Guidelines for Validating Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Pipelines: A Joint Recommendation of the Association for Molecular Pathology and College of American Pathologists,” was released yesterday online ahead of publication in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
Nov 17, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Illumina announced today the introduction of its NextSeq 550Dx instrument and the updated use of its MiSeqDx instrument, expanding Illumina’s diagnostic NGS product portfolio capable of covering a broad range of clinical applications to serve almost any clinical lab need for NGS-based in vitro diagnostic products.
Nov 15, 2017
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Diagnostics World | A recent Nature Reviews Genetics article explores the steps moving us toward a genomics-informed, real-time, global pathogen surveillance system, and the need for such progress.
Nov 14, 2017
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Diagnostics World | A growing body of research has suggested that the same foods and beverages can affect different people in very different ways.
Nov 13, 2017