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Diagnostics World News | Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized molecular biology and served as a universal tool for many research avenues across the spectrum of biology. With the NGS market expanding, three key barriers—time, cost, and expertise—are holding back the potential of NGS and the full impact it could have on society, diagnostics, and precision medicine.
May 5, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | The first-ever wearable sensor for monitoring muscle atrophy has been developed by researchers at The Ohio State University thanks to an interest in the muscle-shrinking condition by NASA, which has been funding most of the work to date.
May 4, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are leading the development of a lateral flow assay for mpox (monkeypox), which in another few years could join pregnancy tests on retail pharmacy shelves. The more immediate plan is to produce a rapid, point-of-care (POC) test for low-resource settings that involves a smartphone or other small reader capable of differentiating mpox from smallpox based on the light bouncing back from gold nanoparticles underpinning the platform.
May 2, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Oxford Nanopore enters the diagnostics market with bioMérieux collaboration, BGI Genomics agrees to tech transfer in southern Africa, and more. Plus new products from Vizgen, Agilent, Capitainer, and Metabolon.
Apr 27, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Mercy BioAnalytics nets Series A for detecting cancer biomarkers on the surface of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles; Gilde Healthcare announces a new fund for medtech; using gas-sensing capsule to assess gastrointestinal motility; and more.
Apr 25, 2023