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Bio-IT World | A growing number of companies are endeavoring to replicate the success of gene sequencing juggernaut Illumina in the burgeoning field of proteomics. A top contender is Nautilus Biotechnology, which has spent the past few years drumming up excitement about the potential for comprehensively profiled proteins to make therapeutic and diagnostic development more effective and time efficient.
Dec 16, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Histopathology is destined to go through the same sort of digital transformation that occurred in the home entertainment industry with the wholesale switchover from in-person visits at Blockbuster stores to anytime movie availability from streaming service Netflix.
Dec 14, 2021
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Diagnostics World | A group of cell engineers and synthetic biologists at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a tech tool called “eToeholds” that could help improve the safety and efficacy of RNA and cell therapies, in addition to enabling new forms of detection.
Dec 9, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | At Oxford Nanopore’s virtual Community Meeting last week, CTO Clive Brown presented new sequencing chemistries and hardware to enable liquid biopsy in the field.
Dec 6, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | American Rescue Plan investment for diagnostics manufacturing, point-of-care gynecological imaging, skincare diagnostics, sepsis diagnostics for warfighters, and more.
Dec 2, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | French AI startup Owkin announces big funding and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center partnership, Roche and Genentech choose Flywheel cloud informatics, and Talis Biomedical gets FDA EUA for COVID-19 test. Plus new products from VIDA Diagnostics, Oncocyte, Metabolon and more.
Nov 30, 2021
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Diagnostics World | Illumina and Genetic Alliance announced this week the creation of the iHope Genetic Health program aimed at providing whole-genome sequencing access (WGS) to tens of thousands of patients across the globe impacted by genetic disease. At least half of iHope Genetic Health's efforts will be focused on areas of the world in need outside the US, with more than one-third of Illumina's support being dedicated to patients in Africa.
Nov 22, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Labs around the country with next-generation sequencing capabilities have begun using a respiratory virus panel that simultaneously tests for SARS-CoV-2 and 40 other potentially co-occurring respiratory viruses, including four cold-causing coronaviruses, both types of respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV), and more than a dozen influenza viruses.
Nov 17, 2021