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Diagnostics World News I Red marrow main target, increase in STIs amid lockdown, Dante Labs to offer Fluidigm’s saliva-based test, COVID-19 worsens tinnitus, few SNFs have fast test result turnaround time, University of Illinois creates successful test and trace program, yearlong study will determine seropositivity in frontline workers, myocarditis not as common as suspected, PerkinElmer receives EUA for pooled sample testing, and viral load determines outcomes with COVID-19 pneumonia. Plus: Twenty percent experience GI symptoms, 1.7 million New Yorkers infected, lung damage found in ‘long COVID’, unique case infectious for 70 days, and delirium early symptom in elderly.
Nov 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | An international team of researchers has demonstrated that an organ-on-a-chip model can accurately measure the effects of a chemotherapeutic on breast cancer tissue and simultaneously identify the unintended side effects on healthy heart tissue.
Nov 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Georgia State University faculty have received a five-year, $3 million federal grant to further develop a tool that will allow researchers around the world to participate in extensive brain imaging analysis without sharing protected patient data.
Nov 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | As the coronavirus pandemic overlaps with flu season, some experts say early detection will be especially crucial for battling this double threat. And in recent months, new diagnostic tests have emerged to help distinguish one from the other.
Nov 2, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I Organs-on-Chips technology to evaluate potential vaccines, COVID-19 associated strokes, recovered patients may be asymptomatic carriers, metabolites identified as biomarkers, frontal lobe involvement in abnormal EEGs, and antibodies detectable for several months. Plus: AI-based algorithm predicts acute kidney injury, PerkinElmer screens for COVID-19 and flu in single test, faster more efficient antibody test by U-M scientists, and NYC outbreak linked to European strains of the virus.
Oct 30, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Australian company nets cash for finger-prick blood infection diagnostic, AI-powered, “semi-autonomous” bone image diagnostics platform, NIH grants for non-Alzheimer’s dementias, and more.
Oct 28, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | It has been known for several years now that a “danger molecule” shows up in the blood when cells in the body are under stress or tissues are injured, inducing a potent inflammatory response—at least in rats. High Mobility Group Box-1 (HMGB1) is in fact one of the best characterized damage-associated molecular patterns.
Oct 26, 2020