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  • Follow the Money: Sepsis Diagnostic Test, Next-Gen Tau Tangle Pathology, More

    Diagnostics World | Cytovale plans to commercially expand IntelliSep, the company’s sepsis diagnostic test, to more hospital emergency departments and health systems nationwide; C2N Diagnostics will continue to develop their next-generation tests specific to tau tangle pathology; and more.

    Oct 29, 2024
  • Owkin, AstraZeneca Plan AI Tool for BRCA Screening

    Diagnostics World | Owkin and AstraZeneca announced a new partnership this month to develop an AI-powered tool to pre-screen for germline BRCA (gBRCA) mutations in breast cancer directly from digitized pathology slides. As part of Owkin’s ongoing collaboration with Gustave Roussy and The Centre Léon Bérard through PortrAIt, a French consortium to accelerate precision medicine through AI-enabled digital pathology, this tool aims to significantly accelerate and expand access to gBRCA testing that too many patients may not be considered for.

    Oct 25, 2024
  • New Eye Tracker Could Ease Diagnoses for Neurological Disorders

    Diagnostics World | Dr. Jae-Hyun Ryou, a mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, has developed a breakthrough wearable eye-tracking system aimed at enhancing brain studies through continuous monitoring. The flexible piezoelectric eye movement sensor array (F-PEMSA) consists of three small sensors, each smaller than a penny, which attach comfortably to the upper, mid, and lower temple.

    Oct 16, 2024
  • Breath Sampling Method Could Help Doctors Treat Tricky Respiratory Infections

    Diagnostics World | As the departments of Defense and Homeland Security are acutely aware, national security and human health have a lot of crossover, including biothreats and infectious diseases. Their investment in instrumentation for rapid analysis of biologic aerosols in the late 1990s is now being creatively repurposed by engineers at Zeteo Tech, together with some novel breath sampling techniques, for the early detection of respiratory infections.

    Oct 15, 2024
  • AI Stethoscope Performs in Practice

    Diagnostics World | Recent studies from researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated how AI can identify patients with significantly higher risk of experiencing major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including heart attacks and heart failure, and how such a tool can be incorporated into the clinic.

    Oct 8, 2024
  • The World Of Precision Medicine Through Digitized Pathology

    Diagnostics World | It is no surprise that clinical trial sponsors are slowly embracing new tools and technologies to achieve greater levels of precision and efficiency needed in an increasingly demanding and competitive drug discovery and development landscape. Where there was once hesitation due to the unknowns of straying from historical analytic processes, there has been exponential growth in the application of digital pathology within clinical research and development efforts in recent years.

    Oct 4, 2024