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  • New Biomarkers, Antibody Tests, and Viral Detection Technologies: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News | IL-6 emerges as a promising biomarker, new antibody tests, and Monell Chemical Sciences Center reports loss of smell more prevalent than thought. Plus: new tests from Oxford Nanopore, Genalyte and optical technologies detect the virus.

    Oct 23, 2020
  • Next-Generation Pharmacovigilance With Natural Language Processing

    Diagnostics World News | Surging use of telemedicine technology since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. earlier this year, but patients who complain of a pain in their leg can’t as easily show their doctor where and how it hurts via telemedicine. Natural language processing (NLP) thus has a potentially bigger role to play in automating diagnoses and the pharmacovigilance process, starting with interpreting data in free text fields and doing some of the cumbersome analytical work.

    Oct 22, 2020
  • Holographic Imaging Detects Virus, SARS-CoV-2 Specific IgG Antibodies Longest Lasting, Testing Wastewater for Coronavirus RNA: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News I Antibodies may provide immunity for several months, five cytokines identified that predict cytokine storm, Dublin-Boston score predicts severity of infection, pandemic related delays in CRC screening may cause significant increase in death rates from cancer, and Fluidigm to provide millions of saliva-based tests to US colleges and universities. Plus: Mount Sanai receives research funding to study impact of virus on lung cancer patients, SwabSeq has capability to test thousands of samples together but give individual results and more.

    Oct 16, 2020