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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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