-
Diagnostics World News | The Mayo Clinic has made a discovery that could help explain why some people who get infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus suffer badly while others feel only mildly ill.
Aug 24, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Meeting the needs of patients, providers, and payers will be key to overcoming the limitations of current point-of-care testing methods. Many of the longstanding obstacles—including limited research funding, dependency on central labs, and general unfamiliarity with diagnostic testing—have already been resolved by the ongoing pandemic.
Aug 23, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Radiomics-based machine learning models have been shown to do an impressive job of detecting pancreatic cancer on pre-diagnostic CT scans several months before symptoms appear, suggesting that one day the disease will more often be diagnosed at a stage where a surgical cure may be possible.
Aug 23, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Numerous studies have confirmed the reliability of rapid, comprehensive molecular diagnostic panels for identifying antimicrobial resistance markers. With advances in molecular diagnostic testing methods, relying on culture results alone is no longer an adequate approach.
Aug 19, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | An MIT engineering team invented a new ultrasound sticker, enabling continuous high-resolution imaging for up to 48 hours.
Aug 18, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | A Yale-based diagnostics initiative is building a nationwide network of clinical laboratories embracing an open-source testing protocol for COVID-19 using saliva. Ultimately, the labs could become important players in public health responses to pandemics of the future and, perhaps more immediately, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
Aug 17, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Evidence is emerging that long COVID (formally “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection,” or PASC) bears a striking, molecular-level resemblance to the disabling and complex illness now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
Aug 16, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Contact lenses may have first arrived to help correct vision impairments, but new tech advances are transforming this familiar product into a tool capable of far more.
Aug 11, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published Phenopackets, a standard initially developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and championed at ISO under the Canadian Mirror Committee to ISO/TC215/SC1 Genomics informatics, and supported by the Standards Council of Canada.
Aug 10, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Researchers in Germany have developed a web-based tool, powered by machine learning, which extracts disease subtypes from large pools of patient data. The goal is more precise and robust predictions about molecular signatures that can serve as a starting point for investigating disease heterogeneity.
Aug 9, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | The National Institute of Standards and Technology has produced a reference material for use as a positive control when developing monkeypox diagnostic tests. The reference material marks the success of a proof-of-concept test and marks a shift in thinking at NIST since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 4, 2022