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Diagnostics World News | Perinatal depression is an understudied and underappreciated mood disorder, but a group of researchers in Michigan are moving the field forward with the discovery of predictive biomarkers of the condition that could one day be used for the routine screening of high-risk women. Nearly one in five new mothers experience severe depression and an estimated 14% have suicidal thoughts—and pregnancy itself, being a major inflammatory event, can be the inducer.
Mar 10, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Old-fashioned technology is the basis of a pioneering test that reliably predicts the spread or return of the deadliest form of skin cancer among the 20% of patients diagnosed with stage I or II melanomas that have not ulcerated. The new immunohistochemistry (IHC) test, developed by a team of scientists and clinicians at Newcastle University in the U.K., could offer relief to anxious patients as well as help shorten “ever-challenging waiting lists” for follow-up care as melanoma cases continue to rise.
Mar 8, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Glycosaminoglycan profiling may enable all-cancer detection, maternal RNA expression profiling can predict preterm birth, Element Biosciences enters several new collaborations, and new COVID diagnostics are available.
Mar 2, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | During a plenary panel last week at the Molecular & Precision Med TRI-CON event, pharma and diagnostics company took on the challenges in developing companion diagnostics and how important these tests are to achieving our precision medicine aims.
Mar 1, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Funding for virtual drug screening, AI-enhanced microscopic pathogen identification, improved genetic variant interpretation, at-home male fertility testing, single-cell sequencing technologies, and more.
Feb 28, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Michael Snyder has been tracking his own health with extreme attention for 12 years now, gathering datapoints including his genomic data, blood markers, microbiome makeups, clinical measures, and much more. He’s found it extremely fruitful, and over the past two years, he’s applying what he’s learned to early diagnoses of COVID-19.
Feb 25, 2022