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  • Catching Cancer Cells In The Act Of Metastasizing

    Diagnostics World | Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made the connection between cellular motility—with a known connection to tumor metastasis—and the shape-shifting behavior of cancer cells to become more “missile-like” and thus better able to make the voyage from one site in the body to another. The newly acquired characteristic arises when epithelial cells morph into mesenchymal cells, but the transition can’t be seen if the cells are all held hostage on a glass microscope slide.

    Jan 19, 2022
  • JP Morgan Notes on Research Services, OTC Testing, Cell-Free Testing

    Diagnostics World News | At the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference—being held virtually again this year—diagnostics companies gave overviews of their 2021 business and their views of the future. Here are the highlights we noted from presentations from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Abbott, and Natera.

    Jan 17, 2022
  • Bioimpedance Test For Breast Cancer Could Hit The Market In 2023

    Diagnostics World News | Mammography has a lot of well-recognized shortcomings among women with dense breasts as well as those diagnosed with breast cancer who need their response to therapy closely monitored. A cheaper, noninvasive, and easy-to-perform test is now under development that could solve for its clinical limitations and is on track to hit the market as early as 2023.

    Jan 13, 2022
  • Trendspotting: Top Diagnostics Issues in 2022

    Diagnostics World News | We spoke with the vendor community of Diagnostics World to gather predictions for the coming year. They gave us additional forecasts for imaging data infrastructures, staffing shortage remedies, SaaS medical devices, avoiding bias in AI algorithms, and more.

    Jan 10, 2022
  • ‘Designer Biosensors’ Proposed For Measuring Patient Response To Toxic Drugs

    Diagnostics World News | Researchers in Australia have succeeded in building a chemically induced dimerization (CID) system that can detect the concentration of the antimetabolite drug methotrexate in serum. Coupled with a functionally related biosensor of rapamycin, commonly used to prevent organ transplant rejection, they also looked at lab prototypes of a multiplexed bioelectronic system for repeated measurements of multiple analytes.

    Jan 6, 2022