Sera Prognostics, Anthem Launch Study to Improve Outcomes for Preterm Babies
The PRIME study is designed to provide a blueprint for how healthcare can more effectively identify and manage high-risk pregnancies and reduce preterm birth.
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LatestBillionToOne Has Closed Its Follow-On Series A+ Funding Round of $15 Million
The new funding will be used to support commercial expansion of the company's Unity prenatal screening test to all US states as well as research and development for future diagnostics.
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Natera’s Noninvasive Prenatal Test Now Available for Screening Twin Pregnancies
The Panorama noninvasive prenatal test is now validated to screen twin pregnancies for zygosity and chromosomal abnormalities.
April 2019 Product Spotlight: Immunoassay Analyzers
April 2019’s product spotlight includes immunoassay kits and analyzers from companies such as Fujirebio, Ansh Labs, Tosoh Bioscience, and more.
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April 2019 Product Spotlight: Immunoassay Analyzers
April 2019’s product spotlight includes immunoassay kits and analyzers from companies such as Fujirebio, Ansh Labs, Tosoh Bioscience, and more.
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First Customizable Noninvasive Prenatal Test for Single-Gene Disorders
The test broadens expectant parents’ prenatal testing options to include a safe, noninvasive test tailored to their family’s risk for a specific genetic disease.
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Prenatal Screening Identifies More Couples at Risk for Birth Defects
The Foresight carrier screen identified 45% more couples at risk for having a child with cystic fibrosis than current guideline-based testing.
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Next-Generation Multiplexing
A novel multiplexing platform called ‘high definition polymerase chain reaction’ brings together widely used, low-cost chemistries and qPCR instrumentation with proprietary data science algorithms to enable streamlined multiplex test development and very affordable test deliverables.
Read MoreUS Study Reveals Lack of Knowledge about Heart Disease
The nationwide study showed worrisome beliefs surrounding cardiac health and disease prevention.
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Myriad’s Expanded Aneuploidy Analysis Could Improve Birth Outcomes
Enhanced test improves detection of chromosomal abnormalities by 30%.
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LGC Maine Standards Adds Cerebrospinal Fluid Total Protein to Validate Body Fluids Kit
The addition allows for easier validation of laboratory-developed tests, documentation of linearity and calibration verification, and verification of reportable range.
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Automating the Clinical Lab
The current generation of instruments for in vitro diagnostics is helping to support clinical labs through a strong emphasis on automation.
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New Test Enables Resistance-Guided Therapy for Gonorrhea
The ResistancePlus GC molecular diagnostic simultaneously diagnoses N. gonorrhoeae and provides antimicrobial susceptibility information, overcoming many of the issues associated with culture-based methods.
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FDA Permits Marketing of First Test to Aid in the Diagnosis of Mycoplasma genitalium Infection
Hologic’s first-in-category assay, cleared through FDA’s De Novo review process, provides laboratories with a highly sensitive and specific molecular diagnostic method to identify M. genitalium infections and enable effective treatment.
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Validate CM2 Kit for Ortho Vitros Analyzers
The kit assists laboratories in documenting their linearity and calibration verification for hs-CRP, NT-proBNP, and TnI assays.
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Parsortix Harvests Fetal Cells from the Blood of Pregnant Women
The Parsortix system offers the potential to extend NIPT to a wide range of conditions not feasible with existing techniques.
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FDA Clears MenoCheck as an Aid in the Determination of Menopausal Status
The MenoCheck assay was developed to aid physicians in determining the status of women during menopausal transition.
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DiaSorin Molecular Attains CE Mark for Simplexa Group B Strep Direct Molecular Assay
Designed for use on the company’s Liaison MDx instrument, the highly sensitive assay enables the direct in vitro detection of Group B Streptococcus DNA.
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