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  • Continuous Stress Hormone Monitoring Takes Microdialysis To Whole New Level

    Diagnostics World | The dynamics of hormone secretion over the course of a day have largely been a mystery, and at the cost of delayed disease detection that often translates into bad odds for optimal recovery.

    Jul 20, 2023
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Device Taking On One Of The Biggest Diseases Of Poverty

    Diagnostics World | Capturing tuberculosis (TB) bacilli in a sputum sample can be like finding a needle in a haystack, unless the bacterial load is high. That’s when most cases are currently detected in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world.

    Jul 18, 2023
  • European Commission Levies Record Fines on Illumina, GRAIL Merger

    Diagnostics World | The European Commission announced this morning that it has fined Illumina and GRAIL approximately €432 million and €1,000 respectively—both record fines—for implementing their proposed merger before approval by the Commission, in breach of EU merger control rules.

    Jul 12, 2023
  • Vibrating Capsule Repurposed For Assessment of ‘Visceral Acuity’

    Diagnostics World | Researchers at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (Tulsa, Oklahoma) are repurposing a vibrating capsule that is FDA-cleared for treating chronic constipation to study how people sense the hidden signals originating in their gastrointestinal (GI) system.

    Jul 12, 2023
  • Organoids and Organs-on-a-Chip Deliver Insights into Pregnancy and Early Development

    Diagnostics World | Recent research is harnessing the potential of placenta, brain, ovarian, and heart organoids and organ-on-a-chip devices to glean valuable insights about reproductive health, the processes involved in pregnancy, and early growth and development.

    Jul 11, 2023
  • New Molecular ‘Beacon’ Sensor Measures Cancer

    Diagnostics World | Florida State University chemists are leading the development of a sensing platform based on the concept of energy transfer quenching, which makes dye-labeled peptides glow when mixed with a patient sample containing a cancer biomarker known as MMP-14 (matrix metalloproteinase-14).

    Jul 6, 2023
  • Walgreens, Freenome Partnership, New AI Products, More

    Diagnostics World | Walgreens and Freenome team up for clinical studies, Illumina launches new disease-predicting AI tool, and Seqera Labs has partnered with Genomics England. Plus, new products from Thermo Fisher, Revvity, more.

    Jun 29, 2023
  • Follow the Money: AI Drug Treatments, Stocks, Quantum Metabolic Polarizers, More

    Diagnostics World | Leveraging AI for drug treatments, stock investments, revolutionizing metabolic MRIs with polarizers, and more.

    Jun 27, 2023
  • Wearable Scores Better Than Gold-Standard Test In Detecting Sleep Apnea

    Diagnostics WorldAs anyone who has ever needed a sleep study is aware, it’s neither convenient nor fun and can easily cost several thousand dollars. Polysomnography (PSG), the gold standard for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea, typically requires an overnight stay at a sleep disorders unit within a hospital or at a sleep center with a long wait to even get scheduled.

    Jun 22, 2023