Latest News

  • Mayo Clinic Develops Gut Microbiome Tool to Help Assess Your Gut Health

    Diagnostics World | Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have developed a new tool that uses machine learning to analyze a stool sample to provide insights into your gut health. The tool, called the Gut Microbiome Wellness Index 2 (GMWI2), can detect subtle changes in the gut to see if one is progressing toward better health or possibly developing a disease.

    Sep 19, 2024
  • LinusBio Looks to Hair to Track Exposome Inch by Inch

    Diagnostics World | The push in personalized medicine to look beyond the genome has netted quite a few valuable ‘omics technologies. Linus Bio is tracking environmental exposures recorded over time in hair. Manish Arora, CEO and founder of LinusBio, believes the platform will “revolutionize personalized medicine.”

    Sep 18, 2024
  • Empowering Women in Infectious Disease Testing with a Sample-Collecting Tampon

    Diagnostics World | Daye, a women's health startup, is addressing the gender diagnostic gap with a novel self-sampling tampon that collects vaginal and cervical fluids for STI and HPV testing. Lindus Health collaborated with Daye to enroll 250 diverse participants and run the STAMP trial evaluating the efficacy of the diagnostic tampon for STIs and bacterial vaginosis (BV).

    Sep 17, 2024
  • Grail Making Major Strides Toward Population-Scale Cancer Control

    Diagnostics World | Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) technology is going to be the best way to achieve population-scale cancer control, and Grail hopes its Galleri blood test that screens for more than 50 types of cancer is among the first to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

    Sep 12, 2024
  • AI Predicts Diseases by Reading Tongue Complexion

    Diagnostics World | A team of Iraqi and Australian researchers from Middle Technical University (MTU) in Baghdad, Iraq, and the University of South Australia (UniSA) collaborated to develop an AI model that can predict diseases based on the color of the patient’s tongue.

    Sep 10, 2024
  • ‘Sparse’ Proteomic Signatures Can Foretell Risk of 60-Plus Diseases

    Diagnostics World | It now appears possible to develop a series of blood-based tests looking for the “sparse” protein signatures of 67 pathologically diverse diseases, which would enable the early detection of high-risk individuals in primary care settings who could then be closely monitored for development of those conditions.

    Sep 5, 2024
  • Proscia Releases Real World Diagnostics Datasets

    Diagnostics World | Today, Proscia announced a real-world data offering on its Concentriq platform comprising a diverse repository of over 10 million whole slide images enhanced with structured data from molecular tests, pathology reports, laboratory tests, and next-generation sequencing across therapeutic areas.

    Sep 4, 2024
  • FDA: Cybersecurity Could be Big Headache For Medical Device Developers

    Diagnostics World | Courtney Lias, Ph.D., the newly named director of the FDA’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices (OHT7) took to the stage at last week’s Next Generation Dx Summit to discuss the latest trends, and associated challenges, in carrying out total product lifecycle activities for in vitro diagnostic devices for the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

    Sep 3, 2024