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  • Illumina Launches Homologous Recombination Deficiency Genetic Test

    Diagnostics World News | Last week Illumina launched a research test, codeveloped with Merck, that builds upon Illumina's commitment to broadly enable comprehensive genomic profiling and enhance research critical to realizing precision medicine in oncology. The test adds assessment of a new genomic signature to the distributed, market leading TruSight Oncology 500 assay.

    Jun 27, 2022
  • Designer Magnetic Molecular Probes Show Diagnostic Promise as Chemical Thermometers

    Diagnostics World News | A Colorado State University team has designed metal ion-containing molecules that–alongside magnetic resonance imaging–could detect slight shifts in the human internal environment.

    Jun 23, 2022
  • Oxford Nanopore’s Metagenomics Workflow Characterizes DNA, RNA Viruses

    Diagnostics World News | A team of researchers from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Nanopore have shared a novel protocol for the rapid metagenomic characterization of DNA and RNA viruses. The workflow identified pathogens in a matter of hours.

    Jun 22, 2022
  • Navigating The Emergency Use Authorization Process for Diagnostics

    Diagnostics World News | The pandemic has thrown a spotlight on the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whereby the agency can quickly give companies temporary permission to market unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved ones. The FDA’s EUA power has been in place a long time, and many such authorizations—including diagnostics specific to the Ebola and Zika viruses—remain open many years after declaration of the public health emergency that invoked it, according to B. Melina Cimler, Ph.D., CEO and founder of PandiaDx, a consultancy specializing in regulatory matters surrounding in vitro diagnostics.

    Jun 21, 2022
  • 100K Synthetic Brain Images Now Available to Aid Diagnostics, Modeling Disease Progression

    Diagnostics World News | Jorge Cardoso, a researcher at King’s College London and CTO at the London AI Centre, and NVIDIA have released 100,000 synthetic brain MRI images freely available to healthcare researchers. They believe the dataset will accelerate diagnosis and understanding of dementia, aging, or any sort of brain disease.

    Jun 16, 2022