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Diagnostics World | Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the few genetic disorders to be considered both serious and common enough to merit universal carrier or prenatal screening. Unfortunately, though, current testing approaches are caught between evolution and revolution even as they continue to produce suboptimal results for people of non-European ancestry.
Nov 21, 2023
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Diagnostics World | Illumina announced a new generation of its distributed liquid biopsy assay for genomic profiling. The new TruSight Oncology 500 ctDNA v2 (TSO 500 ctDNA v2) is a research assay that enables noninvasive comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from blood when tissue testing is not available, or to complement tissue-based testing.
Nov 16, 2023
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Diagnostics World | The “power of the team approach” was on full display for a study designed to understand the contribution of asymptomatic carriers to the spread of Clostridioides difficile in hospitals.
Nov 15, 2023
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Bio-IT World | Illumina has launched the Global Health Access Initiative to support access to pathogen sequencing tools for public health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and reduced prices.
Nov 13, 2023
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Diagnostics World | It may be possible one day soon to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating illness currently suffered by more than 30 million people worldwide. The good news comes straight from the mouth of Randall J. Bateman, M.D., professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine and director of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) and DIAN Trials Unit (DIAN-TU).
Nov 8, 2023