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Diagnostics World News | The suicide rate in the United States is increasing. Suicide prevention begins with risk identification, but it is impossible to screen all of the individuals within a healthcare system. Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers develop an AI tool that can screen EHRs and flag at-risk patients.
Mar 22, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | XPRIZE has announced five winning teams in the $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the winning solutions are radically affordable compared to what is currently available on the market, and are comparable to commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity, and limit of detection—with a maximum turnaround time of 12 hours from sample to result.
Mar 17, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Experts in basic medical sciences, biomedical engineering, and physics at Purdue University have collaborated to develop Doppler spectroscopy—the technique used to reveal the existence of extrasolar planetary systems—to study bacterial invasions of healthy tissue.
Mar 16, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Top COVID-19 news and research stories of the week: are symptom checkers helping or hurting? Could we stop the virus if everyone started weekly testing? And Thermo digs into mutations.
Mar 12, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | Nanoengineering experts at the University of California (UC), San Diego have succeeded in developing an all-in-one health monitoring device that can reliably measure glucose, lactate, and blood pressure using a soft, stretchy skin patch the size of a postage stamp.
Mar 10, 2021
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Diagnostics World News | New acquisitions and partnerships for Charles River, Illumina gets Russian approval, Lumos Diagnostics signs Canadian partnership, digital twin consortium, and more.
Mar 8, 2021
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Diagnostics World News I Axillary adenopathy observed in some women after vaccination, specialized DNA probes analyze RNA sequences with more precision, new approach to pooled testing, elevated neutrophil biomarkers could predict severe outcomes, and two new calculators assess risk of in-hospital mortality or need for mechanical ventilation Plus: Coronavirus-like nanoparticles could serve as new positive controls for COVID-19 testing and a wastewater surveillance system in San Diego proves to be efficient and cost-effective.
Mar 5, 2021