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  • Trends Driving Innovation in Blood Sample Collection, Preparation

    Diagnostics World | The laboratory side of diagnostic blood testing has achieved extraordinary efficiency and precision through automation. The last few decades of technology have allowed labs to simplify and automate sample processing to streamline operations and remove opportunities for human error.

    Oct 13, 2023
  • NCI To Conduct Massive Study To Evaluate Multi-Cancer Detection Assays

    Diagnostics World | The feasibility and design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for evaluating multi-cancer detection (MCD) assays suited to population-based cancer screening is the aim of a pilot Vanguard Study being undertaken by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

    Oct 10, 2023
  • Children’s Mercy Brings Long Read Sequencing to Clinical Care

    Diagnostics World | Beginning today, the research team at Children’s Mercy Kansas City is bringing long read sequencing to clinical care, following three years of research and testing of PacBio HiFi sequencing. The transition is expected to speed the diagnostics odyssey for critically ill patients and their families.

    Oct 6, 2023
  • New Fingerprick Test Assesses Osteoporosis Risk Based On Genomic Variants

    Diagnostics World | Soon it may be possible for people to walk into their doctor’s office anywhere in the world and learn from a fingerprick blood sample if they are genetically predisposed to developing osteoporosis. It will matter not if those individuals are anywhere near the age of menopause, or if they’re male or female, because the SNPs being measured were present from the day they were born and men are by no means immune to the condition.

    Oct 4, 2023
  • Proteomics-Based Assays To Enable Precision Medicine For Ovarian Cancer

    Diagnostics World | Over 900 genes have been implicated in the resistance of tumors to platinum-based chemotherapy that map to many different cellular pathways, thwarting efforts to identify a biomarker to predict refractoriness.

    Oct 3, 2023