Diagnostic Developers Pursue SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Assays for Surveillance, Potential Clinical Use

Dec 22, 2021 | GenomeWeb

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

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...

KRAS Codon 12 Mutations and Detection

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

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.

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