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Diagnostics World News | New five plex RT-qPCR test, novel amplification-free rapid SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection platform, and why temperature screening doesn’t work to diagnose or control COVID-19 spread. Plus: new SARS-CoV-2 antigen ELISA.
Dec 18, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | There is no question that genetic/genomic testing rapidly is becoming the gold standard of care, across clinical specialties and care settings. Genetic information serves as the patient’s lifelong signature. It can—and should—be referenced and interrogated by providers for years and decades into the future.
Dec 15, 2020
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Diagnostic World News I Two-thirds of COVID-19 patients lose sense of taste and smell, nanoPCR technology for diagnosis, biomarkers of blood vessel damage in children, sore eyes significant ocular symptom, Nanopore sequencing technology, understanding viral persistence and immune responses, and IgA antibodies dominate early neutralizing response. Plus: New testing method detects gene expression patterns, lung sound recording system prototype, healthcare workers immunity lasts several months, and combining antibody assays may yield most accurate results.
Dec 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers have been experimenting with abbreviated (aka “fast”) breast MRI for about a decade now and the consensus seems to be that it’s a cost-effective modality for screening women at intermediate risk, including those with dense breast tissue as the sole risk factor.
Dec 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A group of researchers from IBM and Pfizer has developed an AI model that uses small samples of language to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in healthy individuals.
Dec 8, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I One-third of children asymptomatic, tackling barriers in underserved communities, immune mechanism that triggers cytokine storm, assessing the needed for repeat testing, and improved positive controls for COVID-19 assays. Plus: Aggressive and early testing decreased transmission and preliminary results from Predi-COVID study.
Dec 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In a partnership seeking to exploit the genotype-phenotype connection, Agendia and Paige have announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize treatment planning for breast cancer using AI and pathology images.
Dec 3, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The eyes could be easily and inexpensively imaged to reveal the presence of neurodegenerative diseases potentially years before telltale clinical signs, suggests a growing body of research.
Dec 1, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A pair of researchers at Rice University have developed a disposable, microneedle-based biosensing platform capable of detecting malaria infection from protein biomarkers in dermal interstitial fluid. The system not only eliminates the need for finger pricks or blood draws, but also requires no manual processing and has no electronic components—making it potentially well-suited to resource-limited settings, as a point-of-care test performed at doctors’ offices and health clinics, and as a screening tool for home use by the general public.
Nov 24, 2020