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Diagnostics World News | At last month's Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, the opening plenary session featured an intimate series of paired conversations, each designed to place a different set of puzzle pieces on the table, examining that puzzle from four distinct vantage points — patient experience, AI-assisted diagnostics, venture investment, and policy reform — with each conversation delivering a bit more clarity to the emerging picture.
Jun 2, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | Myriad Genetics launches the Prolaris + AI Test for prostate cancer; Lucent Diagnostics announce a collaboration with Tempus AI; Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Lonza launch new technology to modernize and accelerate GMP quality control testing for mRNA therapeutics; and more.
May 29, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | At Scope X, Novo Nordisk gave a presentation on how high-impact opportunities for leveraging AI across the pharmaceutical R&D cycle are too numerous to count but won’t “automagically” solve any of the longstanding problems in ushering molecules to market. AI requires human attention to match tools to tasks for ensuring the accuracy of model predictions, and the pitfalls are dangerously easy to miss,
May 27, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | Isomorphic Labs plans to continue development and deployment of its AI drug design engine; NVision expands POLARIS platform into quantum computation; Kanvas Biosciences advances commercial partnerships that leverage the company’s spatial imaging and manufacturing platform; and more.
May 26, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University have established a rapid blood test to differentiate pancreatic cancer from other pancreatic conditions. The method involves the analysis of tumor-secreted nanoparticles on a specialized chip and actually outperforms the gold-standard needle-based biopsy diagnosis.
May 21, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | For patients seeing a cardiologist, their diagnosis and next steps rest on data gathered at a single point in time: the day of their appointment. One blood pressure reading. One imaging scan. One day’s data to define the health of a continuously changing system. The Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation developed a platform that may be a better way.
May 19, 2026
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Diagnostics World News | During pregnancy, the cells of a fetus make their way into the tissues of mom where they can persist for decades, much like what happens when someone gets an organ transplant but to a far tinier extent. That the maternal-fetal exchange results in chimerism—more specifically, “microchimerism”—is a relatively little-known yet fascinating and profoundly common biological phenomenon.
May 14, 2026