Specimen Collection & Handling

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.

Specimen Collection & Handling

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.

Specimen Collection & Handling

ClearLight to Develop and Commercialize 3-D Tissue-Clearing Technology

ClearLight will combine the new Crystal technology with its Clarity automated lipid-clearing platform.

Liquid Biopsy for Prostate Cancer Granted NY Licensure

Apr 11, 2019 | Prostate, Specimen Collection & Handling

The test helps clinicians to determine whether a patient with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer will benefit most from taxane chemotherapy or androgen-directed therapeutics.

Liquid Biopsy Test from Personal Genome Diagnostics Receives CE Mark

Apr 1, 2019 | Cancer, Specimen Collection & Handling

Certification of the Elio Plasma Resolve liquid biopsy panel will make available a local, noninvasive, next-generation sequencing solution in Europe.

New Assay is a Potential Alternative to Bone Marrow Biopsy

Mar 15, 2019 | Research, Specimen Collection & Handling

The liquid biopsy may enable clinical researchers to better understand tumor biology, particularly in early-stage disease.

Bio-Rad Releases First FDA-Cleared Liquid Biopsy Test for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Feb 24, 2019 | Leukemia, Specimen Collection & Handling

Using the kit, clinicians can accurately and reproducibly monitor residual disease in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, even at low levels.

Precipio and PerkinElmer Collaborate to Provide Liquid Biopsy Solutions

Jan 10, 2019 | Cancer, Molecular Diagnostics, Research, Specimen Collection & Handling, White Papers

Together, Precipio and PerkinElmer can provide a simple, reliable, automated cell-free DNA analysis workflow alongside a cutting-edge mutation enrichment technology, ICE COLD PCR, that will enable laboratories to efficiently use these technologies to support liquid biopsy testing.

National Cancer Institute Grants Support Liquid Biopsy Studies

Jan 10, 2019 | Research, Specimen Collection & Handling

With three NCI grants, BioFluidica is investigating chip-based liquid biopsy technologies for the detection of cancer and related genetic variants.

Olympus Biopsy Needles Improve Staging of GI Disease

Oct 20, 2018 | Needles, Tubes, and Tourniquets, Specimen Collection & Handling

The 25-gauge biopsy needle completes the company’s product line, with expanded FDA indications for both fine needle aspiration and fine needle biopsy.

Palmetto GBA Issues Draft Local Coverage Determination for Decipher Prostate Biopsy Genomic Classifier

Aug 18, 2018 | Prostate, Specimen Collection & Handling

The draft LCD permits coverage for the use of Decipher among men with very low and low risk of prostate cancer according to National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.

Metagenomics for Clinical Trial Selection and Companion Diagnostics

Aug 13, 2018 | Specimen Collection & Handling

This is a companion article to the feature “Reducing the Diagnostic Odyssey.”

Precipio Launches Liquid Biopsy DNA Enrichment Sales in Europe

Jul 2, 2018 | Cancer, Molecular Diagnostics, Research, Specimen Collection & Handling

The company anticipates a $10 million annual European market, with $1 million in annual addressable sales potential from its local partner it Italy.

From the Editor: Waiving Faster

Feb 6, 2018 | Specimen Collection & Handling

As more and more tests are granted waived complexity status, clinical laboratorians may have some concerns about whether such tests are truly comparable to those performed in a CLIA-accredited facility by trained professionals.

Liquid Biopsy Demonstrates Potential to Replace Solid Biopsy in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Jan 9, 2018 | Research, Specimen Collection & Handling

At the recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers from the University of Southern California’s Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center presented results of extensive work with the Parsortix system from Angle.