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  • Guardant and IQVIA Develop Precision Oncology Platform to Normalize Clinical Data

    Diagnostics World News | Innovative Practices Award | Extracting high-quality data from clinical records can be time-consuming and costly, primarily when manual abstractors are tasked with mining complex, unstructured, and lengthy documents. That’s why the scientists at Guardant Health and Linguamatics, an IQVIA company, launched a real-world evidence database called GuardantINFORM. The platform was named one of the 2022 Bio-IT World Innovative Practices award winners.

    Jun 2, 2022
  • AI-Powered Pathology Reshapes Diagnostics and Precision Oncology

    Diagnostics World News | Crosscope and Farcast Bioscience created OrionAI–an artificially intelligent (AI) diagnostic assistant for tumor histological examination. Crosscope developed the AI-enabled digital pathology platform and proprietary algorithms, while Farscape Bioscience created the histoculture platform that preserves entire human tumor microenvironments. OrionAI increases diagnostic speed and lowers misdiagnosis rates of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a highly prevalent disease worldwide.

    May 31, 2022
  • Illumina Gets Companion Diagnostic Indication in EU for Pan-Cancer Test

    Diagnostics World | This week Illumina announced the addition of a companion diagnostic (CDx) indication to its CE-marked in vitro diagnostic TruSight Oncology (TSO) Comprehensive (EU) test. This single test kit, recently launched across Europe, assesses multiple tumor genes and biomarkers to reveal the specific molecular profile of a patient's cancer.

    May 27, 2022
  • $10M Lyme Disease Dx Prize, Ultrarapid WGS from PerkinElmer, More

    Diagnostics World News | An AI-based diagnostic histoculture platform preserves human tumor microenvironment; FUJIFILM partners with over 150 imaging centers across the United States; two multiplex respiratory virus tests enable rapid differentiation and detection; and more.

    May 26, 2022
  • Follow the Money: Parkinson’s Screening, Lung Disease Early Detection, More

    Diagnostics World News| Funding for pathology diagnostics, rapid DNA sequencing, AI-powered disease detection, and more.

    May 25, 2022