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  • For Equitable CF Screening, We Should Expand Our Definition of Pathogenic Variants

    Diagnostics World | Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the few genetic disorders to be considered both serious and common enough to merit universal carrier or prenatal screening. Unfortunately, though, current testing approaches are caught between evolution and revolution even as they continue to produce suboptimal results for people of non-European ancestry.

    Nov 21, 2023
  • Illumina Releases Updated TruSight Oncology Liquid Biopsy Assay

    Diagnostics World | Illumina announced a new generation of its distributed liquid biopsy assay for genomic profiling. The new TruSight Oncology 500 ctDNA v2 (TSO 500 ctDNA v2) is a research assay that enables noninvasive comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from blood when tissue testing is not available, or to complement tissue-based testing.

    Nov 16, 2023
  • The Last Mile In Preventing A Deadly Hospital Infection

    Diagnostics World | The “power of the team approach” was on full display for a study designed to understand the contribution of asymptomatic carriers to the spread of Clostridioides difficile in hospitals.

    Nov 15, 2023
  • Illumina Launches Program to Discount Pathogen Sequencing Tools for Public Health

    Bio-IT World | Illumina has launched the Global Health Access Initiative to support access to pathogen sequencing tools for public health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and reduced prices.

    Nov 13, 2023