-
Diagnostics World News | As the global COVID-19 battle wages on, the ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to expand around the world. As the medical community continues to evaluate new technology-based approaches to fight AMR, microbial genome sequencing coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) are among the first topics brought up for discussion, and many laboratories are already embracing these new technologies.
Mar 25, 2022
-
Diagnostic World News | Hundreds of clinical trials are underway testing therapies for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet until very recently there was not a clear definition of what is even being treated. But with newly proposed criteria to describe the condition, researchers and regulatory agencies have a basis for agreement that could help inform study design and potentially improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Mar 23, 2022
-
Diagnostics World News | Merging biotech and infotech, life science company Karius has laid the groundwork for dramatically advancing molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases on a global scale, according to Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Brad Perkins, M.D. Using technology similar to what’s being used for detecting circulating tumor DNA, the Karius “liquid biopsy” test looks for microbial cell-free DNA (cfDNA) to accurately identify more than 1,000 pathogens from a single blood draw.
Mar 18, 2022
-
Diagnostics World | In recent years, the race to develop a single test that can simultaneously screen for many cancers has heated up. Dozens of companies have thrown their hats in the ring, pursuing differing approaches to search for the very earliest signs of cancer. So where does this field currently stand? Where is it headed? And is extremely early cancer detection really possible?
Mar 16, 2022