Dental Floss-Based Sensor Can Also Measure Stress
Engineers have developed a floss-based sensor that non-invasively measures cortisol levels in saliva, enabling real-time stress monitoring.
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Lab Values Link Periprosthetic Joint Infection with Obesity
Lab values predict the risk of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in severely obese patients undergoing knee or hip replacement.
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BD’s Fingertip Blood Collection Device Receives 510(k) Clearance
BD has received 510(k) clearances from the U.S. FDA for a novel fingerstick blood-collection device that produces lab-quality results.
Korean Researchers Develop Dried Blood Spot Certified Reference Materials for Newborn Screening
Researchers developed certified reference materials that can enhance the reliability of using dried blood spot testing for newborn screening.
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Drones May Be the Future of Transporting Lab Samples
Missing from the logistics discussion is how the healthcare industry will benefit, and, specifically, the transportation of lab samples.
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Tuberculosis Diagnosis Made Easy
Tuberculosis diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, but another way has been found to identify the disease.
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Babson, BD Partnership to Advance Diagnostic Blood Collection in New Care Settings
Babson Diagnostics and BD announced the expansion of a strategic partnership to move blood sample collection into new care settings.
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Implementing Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Testing in the Clinical Laboratory
Dried blood spot testing provides clinical labs an easy-to-collect, reliable, and cost-effective means to test for a variety of diseases.
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Akoya Biosciences Launches Single-Cell Spatial Biology System
Akoya Biosciences has announced the commercial availability of the PhenoCycler-Fusion system for high-speed imaging of whole slides.
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Saliva Testing Shows Promise for Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
Research points to saliva testing as a potential alternative to blood sampling for patients with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.
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Toxicology Testing: Addressing the Epidemic within the Pandemic
Timely toxicology testing remains vital to patient treatment, but the challenge is staying ahead of emerging illicit drugs.
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National Drug Impaired Driving Testing Recommendations Released
An update to the NSC-ADID recommendations for toxicology testing in impaired driving and motor vehicle fatalities has just been released.
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Salivary Protein Wiki May Transform Diagnostic Testing
To improve the development of new saliva-based diagnostic tests, the NIDCR has supported the development of the Human Salivary Proteome Wiki.
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CDC Updates Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, Testing Clinical Specimens for Covid-19
The CDC has updated its Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons for COVID-19 with language clarifications.
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Spectrum Solutions Gets EUA for SDNA-1000 Saliva Collection Device
The self-contained saliva collection kit provides sample consistency while suspending and neutralizing viral RNA transcripts, completely inactivating the live covid-19 virus.
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Cancer Detection and Liquid Biopsy
Analysis of cell-free DNA in blood samples is revolutionizing cancer treatment and prognosis.
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Renal Cell Carcinoma Liquid Biopsy Trial Underway
The AUR87A trial will involve 16 hospitals across Europe and the United States, making it the largest-ever prospective multicenter study of a diagnostic for the detection of recurrence after surgery in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
Read MorePersonal Genome Diagnostics and Eisai Collaborate to Develop a Comprehensive Solution for Liquid Biopsy Biomarker Discovery
The collaboration intends to create a kitted next-generation sequencing product that will enable researchers and biopharma companies to conduct biomarker discovery, using noninvasive blood samples collected from patients in clinical trials.
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