Diagnostic Developers Pursue SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Assays for Surveillance, Potential Clinical Use
Dealing with the Respiratory Viruses that Cause Covid-19 or Flu
Influenza and COVID-19: what are they in common? Currently, the two most important respiratory viruses the healthcare authority is paying attention to are SARS-COV-2 (causing COVID-19) and influenza A and B viruses (Flu A and B). The Flu A and B viruses (named by the...
Early Cancer Detection Will Save More Lives
Cancer deaths due to failure of early detection According to the American Cancer Society researchers, it is estimated that there will be more than 600,000 people die of cancer, and 1.9 million new cancer cases in the US in 2021 alone. Seventy-one percent of the...
Assay Detects Precancerous Colorectal Cancer Lesions & Mutations
Written by Chris Wolskiat Clinical Lab Products Read the article on Clinical Lab Products
DiaCarta Positioning Liquid Biopsy Assay to Gauge Chemotherapy Response in Multiple Cancers
Written by John Gilmore at genomeweb Read the article on genomeweb Download the article NEW YORK – On the heels of newly published data, Diacarta plans to invest further in blood-based testing to determine the utility of its assays to predict drug response in patients...
KRAS Codon 12 Mutations and Detection
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool that has seen a fast increase in clinical labs although only a few NGS tests have been approved by the FDA. However, there have been a lot of debate on if variants from NGS sequencing should be confirmed either by Sanger sequencing, the gold standard, or other techniques such as quantitative PCR, or the combination, or other methods.
HPV-driven Cancers and Somatic Mutations in These Cancers
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool that has seen a fast increase in clinical labs although only a few NGS tests have been approved by the FDA. However, there have been a lot of debate on if variants from NGS sequencing should be confirmed either by Sanger sequencing, the gold standard, or other techniques such as quantitative PCR, or the combination, or other methods.