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Diagnostics World | Researchers from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, have discovered a genetic signature in newborn infants that can predict neonatal sepsis before symptoms show. Neonatal sepsis is difficult to diagnose because of the nonspecific clinical signs that are often considered typical behavior issues in newborns, such as difficulty feeding and irritability. Therefore, most infants are not diagnosed until they start developing or have acquired the disease.
Dec 5, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Most people in the United States have gotten no closer to malaria than the evening news, making the devasting nature of the infection in sub-Saharan Africa hard to fathom. Possibly once or more a day, people are being bitten by pathogen-carrying mosquitoes that cause untold hours of missed work and school and ultimately claim the lives of over half a million people—most of them young children.
Dec 3, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Alimetry plans to commercialize its wearable gut health monitoring device; PrognomiQ launches in vitro diagnostic; and more.
Nov 26, 2024
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Diagnostics World | NOWDiagnostics announced that its First To Know Syphilis Test, a key tool in syphilis prevention, is available for purchase nationwide; Veravas announced the results of an analytical verification study of its VeraBIND Tau assay, a next-generation test being co-developed with Phanes Biotech for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease at its earliest, most treatable stages; and more.
Nov 25, 2024
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Diagnostics World | Illumina announced an expansion of its TruSight Oncology portfolio this week at the annual meeting of the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) in Vancouver, British Columbia, with TruSight Oncology 500 v2 planned for global release in mid-2025.
Nov 21, 2024