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New guide for genomic diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia published

In Spain, a workgroup of more than 400 researchers, the Spanish Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes, meets twice a year to present projects and undertake collaborations that improve their work in the fight against Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia, two types of blood cancers.

4 Nov 2019

Hong Kong Baptist University receives FDA orphan drug designation for novel aptamer

A research team from the School of Chinese Medicine at Hong Kong Baptist University has successfully developed a novel aptamer, i.e. a single-stranded piece of DNA, for the treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

23 Oct 2019

Development and assessment of NGS-based microsatellite instability assay

The assay has a clinically relevant five-day turnaround time and can be conducted on as little as 20 ng genomic DNA with a batch size of up to forty samples in a single run.

18 Oct 2019

Newly established Precision Immunotherapy Clinic matches cancer patients to latest treatments

A third occurrence of colon cancer and a failed immunotherapy clinical trial left Gordon Levine confined to a wheelchair with large tumors in his right hip bone, spine and lung, plus smaller tumors throughout his body, including one that caused an obstruction in his colon.

17 Oct 2019

Spectrum Health, MSU researchers aim to find new or better treatments for "orphan diseases"

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Michigan State University researcher a $2.1 million, five-year grant to search vast databases of existing drugs.

16 Oct 2019

UTEP awarded $19.2 million NIH grant to study cancer affecting Mexican-American population

The University of Texas at El Paso's Border Biomedical Research Center will accelerate its quest to understand and identify the reasons for Hispanic cancer health disparities and its ultimate impact on the people of the Paso del Norte region thanks to a five-year, $19.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

16 Oct 2019

Brain protein plays a prominent role in the maintenance of chronic pain

A protein called RGS4 (Regulator of G protein signaling 4) plays a prominent role in the maintenance of long-term pain states and may serve as a promising new target for the treatment of chronic pain conditions, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in print October 16, in The Journal of Neuroscience.

11 Oct 2019

ATCC launches new database of reference-quality genome sequences to aid biological research

ATCC launched its new ATCC Genome Portal, a publicly available database of reference-quality genome sequences matched to authenticated ATCC biological materials that will help researchers interpret and reproduce their results with confidence.

From American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 4 Oct 2019

New screening test detects 20 types of cancer

Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new blood test that would accurately determine the presence of several types of cancers. The results of their multi-centre clinical trial to prove the effectiveness of their test was presented by the researchers at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2019 Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on the 28th of September 2019.

30 Sep 2019

New blood test shows ability to accurately detect numerous types of cancer

A new blood test in development has shown ability to screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy, a trial of the test shows.

28 Sep 2019

NAU researchers aim to find microbial link between two common respiratory diseases

Asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis- sinus inflammation that lasts for at least three months- are serious and costly diseases, and both are on the rise. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, CRS affects up to 16 percent of the U.S. adult population and eats up a staggering 5 percent of the country's health care budget each year.

27 Sep 2019

UMD CONSERVE Center is spearheading effort to achieve water and food security

We're running out of water to grow food. Climate change, population growth and increasing demands on freshwater systems are straining agricultural water supplies.

27 Sep 2019

Personal Genome Diagnostics applies CE mark to PGDx elio tissue complete assay

Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, today announced that it has applied the CE mark to the PGDx elio™ tissue complete assay.

26 Sep 2019

AMP announces recipients of 2019's Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostics professional society, today announced the recipients of this year's Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership Award and Meritorious Service Award.

19 Sep 2019

Researchers join new project to eliminate animal testing

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are part of an ambitious plan at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, to eliminate animal testing by 2035.

19 Sep 2019

CFSRE and Verogen join forces to accelerate implementation of new forensic NGS technology

The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education (CFSRE) and Verogen have entered into a collaborative agreement to establish CFSRE as a leader in the field of forensic Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), also known as Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing (MPS).

From Verogen, Inc. 13 Sep 2019

New liquid biopsy test may be more predictive of patient's immunotherapy response

A new liquid biopsy test could detect microsatellite instability (MSI) and tumor mutational burden (TMB), indicating that it could help determine which patients are likely to respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

11 Sep 2019

Tecan launches NGS DreamPrep delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy for automated library preparation

Tecan today announces the launch of NGS DreamPrep, a fully-automated approach to next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation for research use. This groundbreaking new approach offers quality controlled, sequencing-ready NGS libraries in just a matter of hours, with minimal manual interaction and no sample loss.

From Tecan 29 Aug 2019

Tecan to launch Fluent Gx Automation Workstation for use in regulated laboratories

Tecan’s range of advanced liquid handling solutions will soon be enhanced with the introduction of the new Fluent® Gx Automation Workstation, designed specifically to meet the stringent needs of clinical and regulated laboratories.