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  • Understanding Cancer’s Home

    Diagnostics World News | Cancer tries its hardest not to be found. Seeking to better understand the early tumor micro-environment may prove to be a powerful harbinger of early cancer development. In our quest for early cancer detection, we should look more closely at the complex and potentially detectable changes in the micro-environment surrounding the tumor.

    Jan 19, 2021
  • Antibody Detection in Seconds, AI Screening Tool Launches, Racial Inequalities in Testing: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News I Princeton University spin-off launches AI COVID screening tool, new antibody test helps select donor blood samples for therapeutic use, concerns raised over UK’s rollout of rapid asymptomatic testing, and Wuhan study finds symptoms linger for many. Plus: FDA grants EUA for high-volume antigen test and asymptomatic testing, new simplified COVID-19 testing method, and nanomaterial-based biosensing platform detects COVID-19 antibodies in seconds.

    Jan 15, 2021
  • Diagnostics Outlook Bright Says Illumina At JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

    Diagnostics World News | At the 39th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco today, Illumina CEO Francis deSouza outlined Illumina’s take on the genomics market, focusing heavily on a rosy outlook for clinical genomics.

    Jan 12, 2021
  • Valencell Announces Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring For Finger, Wrist

    Diagnostics World News | Valencell today announced that its calibration-free, cuffless blood pressure (BP) technology for wearables is now able to be used in devices worn on the finger and wrist including smartwatches, fitness bands, patches and pulse oximeter finger clips.

    Jan 12, 2021
  • Electricity-Producing Bacteria Power Test Of Antibiotic Effectiveness

    Diagnostics World News | Energy-generating bacteria, only in recent years leveraged to power biobatteries, have now been deployed for paper-based biosensing of antibiotic effectiveness. The innovative twist here is a high-throughput antimicrobial susceptibility testing device that eliminates the need for lab culturing and provides actionable results within five hours.

    Jan 11, 2021
  • New Test Delivers Results in Minutes, Loss of Smell Common in Mild Cases, Entire UK Population To Be Home-Tested: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News I New technology has the potential for at-home immunity monitoring, novel COVID-19 test delivers results in under five minutes, Spectrum Solutions to provide saliva collection device for UK population weekly testing. Plus: Phillips, BioIntelliSense, University of Colorado receive award to validate BioSticker wearable sensor to detect early COVID-19 symptoms.

    Jan 8, 2021
  • Trendspotting: Top Diagnostics Issues In 2021

    Diagnostics World News | Within the Diagnostics World vendor community, leaders have been working hard to synthesize what 2020 brought us and apply those learnings to 2021. Here are the full trends and predictions including pathogen surveillance, AMR, telehealth and home diagnostics, machine learning-based triage, omics for diagnostics, and supply chain reliability.

    Jan 7, 2021
  • All-In-One Metagenomic Test Quickly Identifies Pathogens From Multiple Sample Types

    Diagnostics World News | An all-in-one metagenomics test developed by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) scientists could transform the way infectious diseases are diagnosed at the point of care, irrespective of the sample type. The same technology is being adapted as a means to simultaneously detect SARS-CoV-2 and track down drivers of COVID-19 outbreaks at the community level.

    Jan 6, 2021
  • AI-Assisted Breast Cancer Dx, Whole Genome Sequencing, Kidney Disease Dx, More

    Diagnostics World News | Updates from Ibex Medical Analytics and Paige on AI-assisted breast cancer diagnoses, using vocal biomarkers to diagnose pulmonary hypertension, whole genome sequencing in diagnoses, and more.

    Jan 4, 2021
  • Top Stories of 2020: Regulatory Landscape, Emergency Use Authorization, Organs-On-A-Chip. And COVID-19

    Diagnostics World News | By March, the whole world was faced with a massive diagnostics problem, and companies everywhere pivoted to focus on methods for diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infections quickly, accurately, and with a test that could scale. But COVID-19 diagnoses weren’t the year’s only developments. We also covered the growing trends in medical monitoring, organ-on-a-chip models, the regulatory environment for laboratory-developed tests and much more.

    Dec 29, 2020
  • Follow the Money: Home COVID-19 Tests, Handheld Diagnostics, Digital Pathology

    Diagnostics World News | Funding updates around the diagnostics industry including cash for glycoproteomic-powered ovarian cancer diagnostics, investments in diagnosing traumatic brain injury, digital pathology, scaled up production of QuantuMDx’s portable PCR diagnostic device, and more.

    Dec 21, 2020