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Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify T-cell Targets for Development of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Synthetic Nanobodies Offer Potential for Development of Inhalable COVID-19 Drugs

Gilead Begins Testing Inhaled Version of Remdesivir for Treatment of COVID-19

China’s Sinovac Biotech Begins Phase 3 Trials of Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate in Brazil

Common Antihistamine Nasal Spray Identified as Potential Anti-COVID-19 Drug

EpiGentek Launches First-to-Market Kits to Detect SARS-CoV-2-Targeted Furin Activity and Screen for Inhibitors Against COVID-19

New Rapid 45-Minute COVID-19 Test Ideal for Screening at Points of Risk

Diasorin CE Marks New Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct Gen II Assay to Run with Simplexa COVID-19 Direct Assay

BD Launches Portable, Rapid POC Antigen Test to Detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 Minutes

Triple Antibody Test for COVID-19 Provides Laboratory-Standard Results in Just Seven Minutes

Quantabio RT-qPCR Kit Given Expanded Role in CDC COVID-19 Testing Protocol

Advanced Biological Releases First Commercial CE-IVD Registered COVID-19 rRT-PCR Assay Also Validated for Saliva

COVID-19-Influenza Combination Test Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization

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Novel Device Compared to Thromboelastography for Clotting Defects

Image: A novel LSR-based coagulation sensor called iCoagLab has been favorably compared to thromboelastography to estimate bleeding risk (Photo courtesy of Massachusetts General Hospital).

Clotting disorders occur when the body is unable to make sufficient amounts of the proteins that are needed to help the blood clot, stopping bleeding. These proteins are called clotting factors (coagulation factors). All clotting factors are made in the liver which requires vitamin K to make some of the clotting factors. Read more
09 Jul 2020

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Rapid Genomic Profiling of Colon Cancers Improves Therapy Selection

09 Jul 2020

Pneumonia Panel Evaluated for Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

08 Jul 2020

Gut Microbiome Metabolomic Profiles Are Diagnostic for Liver Diseases

08 Jul 2020

DNA Sequencing Technique Unravels Genetic Diversity of Cancer Tumors

07 Jul 2020

An Eight MicroRNA Biomarker Panel for Diagnosis of ALS

07 Jul 2020

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EpiGentek Launches First-to-Market Kits to Detect SARS-CoV-2-Targeted Furin Activity and Screen for Inhibitors Against COVID-19

EpiGentek (Farmingdale, NY, USA) has released a series of SARS-CoV-2 research assays that focuses on studies of SARS-CoV-2 targeted furin or proprotein convertase (PC) cleavage activity. Read more
10 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Triple Antibody Test for COVID-19 Provides Laboratory-Standard Results in Just Seven Minutes

A new triple antibody test detects antibodies to three different COVID-19 proteins in seven minutes at the PoC, giving a more powerful profile of the clinically relevant biomarkers than other currently available COVID-19 tests. Read more
10 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: Dr. Laura Lamb (Photo courtesy of Beaumont Research Institute)

New Rapid 45-Minute COVID-19 Test Ideal for Screening at Points of Risk

Researchers at the Aikens Research Center at Beaumont Research Institute (Southfield, MI, USA) who developed the test found the results to be highly accurate as compared to existing technology. Read more
09 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Quantabio RT-qPCR Kit Given Expanded Role in CDC COVID-19 Testing Protocol

Quantabio’s (Beverly, MA, USA) UltraPlex 1-Step ToughMix has been recognized as part of the expanded emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 testing protocol. Read more
09 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: LIAISON® MDX (Photo courtesy of DiaSorin Molecular LLC)

Diasorin CE Marks New Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct Gen II Assay to Run with Simplexa COVID-19 Direct Assay

DiaSorin Molecular LLC (Cypress, CA, USA) has CE marked its Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct Gen II kit to run alongside its Simplexa COVID-19 Direct kit. Read more
08 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: qRT-PCR Workflow (Photo courtesy of Advanced Biological Laboratories)

Advanced Biological Releases First Commercial CE-IVD Registered COVID-19 rRT-PCR Assay Also Validated for Saliva

Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL Luxembourg) has announced the CE-IVD marking of its UltraGene Combo2Screen SARS-CoV-2 qPCR assay. Read more
08 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: The BD Veritor Plus System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Assay (Photo courtesy of Becton, Dickinson and Company)

BD Launches Portable, Rapid POC Antigen Test to Detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 Minutes

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) has been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its rapid, point-of-care, SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test for use with the company’s BD Veritor Plus System. Read more
07 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: The Neptune plus Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (Photo courtesy of Thermo Fisher Scientific).

Geochemistry Test Identifies Osteoporosis Earlier Than Standard Method

In the USA, around 10 million people have osteoporosis and 44 million have low bone density. Osteoporosis affects the bones of around 22 million people in the EU and about 85% of these people are women. Read more
07 Jul 2020 | Clinical Chemistry

COVID-19-Influenza Combination Test Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA Silver Spring, MD, USA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the third diagnostic test for detection and differentiation of the viruses that cause flu and COVID-19 in individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Atlanta, GA, USA). Read more
06 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: ErbaLisa COVID-19 IgM ELISA kit (Photo courtesy of Erba Mannheim)

Transasia Launches COVID-19 IgG Antibody Kits with 98% Accuracy and at 20% Cost of RT-PCR Tests

Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd. (Mumbai, India) has announced wide availability of its recently launched ELISA antibody test kits through its pan-India network of over 50,000 diagnostic labs. Read more
06 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: The Bioanalyzer RNA 6000 Nano assay provides reliable and reproducible characterization of total RNA and mRNA from multiple sample types (Photo courtesy of Agilent Technologies).

RNA Sequencing as Alternative to Immunohistochemistry in Cancer Diagnostics

The conventionally used method for cancer diagnostics relies on immunohistochemical dyeing of tumor tissue sections. Read more
06 Jul 2020 | Molecular Diagnostics

Image: Aggregates of immune cells known as tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs), seen here within a tumor of the soft tissues known as a rhabdomyosarcoma, are major players in the immune system’s fight against cancer (Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center).

Immune Cells Hampered Fighting Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas

Immunotherapies such as checkpoint inhibitors that enhance the body's natural ability to fight cancer have been only minimally successful in treating sarcomas which are rare cancers that grow in the soft tissues and bones. Read more
06 Jul 2020 | Immunology

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Image: Low levels of bicarbonate in the blood were linked to a higher risk of progression to chronic kidney disease (Photo courtesy of Blood Tests London).

Pediatric CKD Progression Linked to Low Serum Bicarbonate

Metabolic acidosis is a serious electrolyte disorder characterized by an imbalance in the body's acid-base balance. Metabolic acidosis has three main root causes: increased acid production, loss of bicarbonate,... Read more

Image: Presepsin concentrations (ng/mL) in two severity groups. Black line: sepsis patients; black dotted line: septic shock patients (Photo courtesy of University Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb).

Presepsin Values Evaluated as Sepsis Severity Markers

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition, with poor and highly variable clinical manifestations, difficult to identify and diagnose. Sepsis has remained a real diagnostic challenge to clinicians, causing... Read more

Image: Thyroid-stimulating hormone variations in pregnancy may prompt erroneous subclinical thyroid disease diagnosis (Photo courtesy of HealthEngine).

Pregnancy TSH Variations Prompt Erroneous Thyroid Disease Diagnosis

Thyroid-stimulating hormone is a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroxine, and then triiodothyronine which stimulates the metabolism of almost every tissue in the body.... Read more

Image: The single gene, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR) gene is located on the long arm of chromosome 7, and its mutations cause CF (Photo courtesy of Daryl Isaac).

Biomarkers Evaluated for Lung Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common life-shortening monogenic disorders amongst European-derived populations currently affecting more than 85,000 patients worldwide. The diagnosis of CF is based... Read more

Molecular Diagnostics

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Image: The Chemagic 360 extracts DNA and uses transiently magnetized rods to attract the beads after binding to the nucleic acids (Photo courtesy of PerkinElmer).

Blood Group Locus Contributes to COVID-19 Severity Risk

There is considerable variation in disease behavior among patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).... Read more

Image: Variability in prostate cancer–specific multigene panels; genetic testing registry as of August 2019 (Photo courtesy of Saud H. AlDubayan, MD).

Precision Medicine-Based Genetic Testing Developed for Prostate Cancer

Germline testing (GT) is a central feature of prostate cancer (PCA) treatment, management, and hereditary cancer assessment. Critical needs include optimized multigene testing strategies that incorporate... Read more

Image: This image depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the center cytosine. The two white spheres represent methyl groups (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Sensitive and Accurate Cancer Detection Through Analysis of Circulating Free DNA Methylation Patterns

An advanced liquid biopsy method for the detection and diagnosis of various types of cancer is based on the analysis of circulating tumor DNA methylation profiles. Definitive tumor diagnosis relies... Read more

$Image: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is found in serum and plasma fractions from blood. The mechanism of ctDNA release is unknown, though apoptosis, necrosis, and active secretion from tumor cells have been hypothesized. Once ctDNA is isolated, it can be sequenced for mutational analysis (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)$

Highly Sensitive Liquid Biopsy Technique Brings Personalized Cancer Monitoring a Step Closer

A modified liquid biopsy method enables detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) with much greater sensitivity than previously used techniques and demonstrates the potential to revolutionize all aspects... Read more

Hematology

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Image: CAPILLARYS 2 FLEX PIERCING is an instrument utilizing capillary electrophoresis developed to be versatile while providing a clear-cut and precise protein separation with high throughput (Photo courtesy of Sebia).

Detection Rate of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance Determined

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal plasma cell malignancy that accounts for approximately 2% of all malignancies. Plasma cells help you fight infections by making antibodies that recognize and attack pathogens.... Read more

Image: The NanoDrop 2000 and 2000c are full-spectrum, UV-Vis spectrophotometers used to quantify and assess purity of DNA, RNA, Protein and more (Photo courtesy of Thermo Fisher Scientific).

Serum Mir‐22 Prognostic Marker Explored for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive hematopoietic stem cell malignancy that is characterized by the clonal proliferation of myeloid precursors. Abnormal accumulation of leukemic blasts in the... Read more

Tortuosity-Powered Microfluidic Device Assesses Thrombosis

Accurate assessment of blood thrombosis and antithrombotic therapy is essential for the management of patients in a variety of clinical conditions, including surgery and on extracorporeal life support.... Read more

Image: A unit of cord blood that can be used for stem cell transplants (Photo courtesy of Catholic University of Valencia).

Cord Blood Transplants May Outperform Matched Sibling Donors

When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor sources: A matched related donor (sibling), a matched unrelated donor (from a donor database), a half-matched donor, or... Read more

Immunology

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Blood Test Could Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS), with a highly variable inter-individual disease course. As a result, even if using existing... Read more

Diagnostic Assay Developed for Unclassified Severe Combined Immune Deficiency

Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) is a group of rare hereditary genetic disorders, and is characterized by a total absence of immune system function, including an absence of T-lymphocytes, the white... Read more

Image: This illustration reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Certain Cytokines Not Associated with Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms

The pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is sharply spreading all over the world. The severity of a viral disease usually is positive association with immune-mediated inflammatory responses.... Read more

Image: Schematic representation of the remote electrochemiluminescence (ECL) mechanism (Photo courtesy of University of Bologna).

Increasingly Efficient Serological Tests Developed with Electrochemiluminescence

Diagnostic markers, or biomarkers, are biomolecules (e.g., enzymes, proteins, peptides, and hormones) that can be measured accurately and reproducibly and can precisely predict relevant clinical outcomes... Read more

Microbiology

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Image: The MiSeq Next Generation Sequencer is an integrated instrument that performs clonal amplification, genomic DNA sequencing, and data analysis with base calling, alignment, variant calling, and reporting in a single run (Photo courtesy of Illumina).

Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis Characterized in Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common, progressive, and debilitating disease, which currently cannot be prevented or cured. With the exception of rare genetic forms, the cause of PD is unknown.... Read more

Image: Corbett Rotor-Gene 6000 Real Time PCR Machine (Photo courtesy of Corbett Life Science).

Isothermal Amplification Method Used to Detect Salmonella Subtypes

Salmonella is a common cause of foodborne disease worldwide, including Australia. More than 85% of outbreaks of human salmonellosis in Australia were caused by five Salmonella serovars. Rapid, accurate,... Read more

Image: The Loa Antibody Rapid Test detects human IgG against a 148-aminoacid sequence of Ll-SXP-1 (Photo courtesy of Drugs & Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases).

Two Serodiagnostic Tests Compared for Loiasis in Non-Endemic Area

Loiasis, the disease caused by the infection with the filarial nematode Loa loa, is transmitted through the bite of tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops. It is endemic in Central and West Africa where,... Read more

Fidget Spinner Rapidly Detects Urinary Tract Infections

More than half of all women experience at least one episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, with men also facing increasing risks of infection as they age. Current detection of UTIs... Read more

Pathology

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Roche Advances Personalized Healthcare with Development of Image Analysis Algorithms Using Artificial Intelligence

Roche (Basel, Switzerland) has announced the CE-IVD launch of its automated digital pathology algorithm, the uPath PD-L1 (SP263) image analysis for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Roche is delivering... Read more

Image: Photomicrograph of pediatric pilocytic astrocytoma, a brain tumor, showing the characteristic bipolar cells with long hair-like processes (Photo courtesy of Nephron)

Precision Oncology Confers Clinical Benefit in Relapsed Pediatric Cancer

The Individualized Therapy for Relapsed Malignancies in Childhood (INFORM) registry has been created to help develop precision medicine-based approaches and to analyze their effectiveness across high-risk... Read more

Image: Schematic diagram of how the representative tumor sampling method lessens bias in molecular analyses (Photo courtesy of Francis Crick Institute).

Representative Tumor Sampling Method Lessens Molecular Analyses Bias

Over the past decade, clinical scientists have demonstrated the inability of an individual biopsy or formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) block to capture the genetic diversity of a solid tumor.... Read more

$Image: Schematic diagram of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) which is found in serum and plasma fractions from blood. The mechanism of ctDNA release is unknown, though apoptosis, necrosis, and active secretion from tumor cells have been hypothesized. Once ctDNA is isolated, it can be sequenced for mutational analysis (Photo courtesy of Rachel June Wong).$