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Tesla Building Portable, Automated “RNA Microfactories” for CureVac's COVID-19 Vaccine

New Study Confirms COVID-19 Vaccine Will Need to Elicit T Cells to Work alongside Antibodies

Fujifilm’s AI Platform, REiLI Chosen by ASST Vimercate Hospital to Support Operators in Fight Against COVID-19

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Early Positive Data from Phase 1/2 Study of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Erba Mannheim Makes SARS-CoV-2 Testing Available to Labs Everywhere

Eurofins Launches CE-IVD Marked Rapid POC Testing Devices to Identify Past Exposure to COVID-19 in 10 Minutes

Roche Secures FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Elecsys IL-6 Test to Identify Severe Inflammatory Response in COVID-19 Patients

Blood Test Can Predict Severity of COVID-19

Fluxergy Collaborates with Mass General Brigham to Evaluate One-Hour COVID-19 Diagnostic Test

T2 Biosystems Launches New COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostic Test

Beckman Coulter's SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody Test Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization

New One-Piece Injection-Molded COVID-19 Swab to Enable Expanded Testing

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Pediatric CKD Progression Linked to Low Serum Bicarbonate

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).

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, and a reduced ability of the kidneys to excrete excess acids. Read more
02 Jul 2020

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Blood Group Locus Contributes to COVID-19 Severity Risk

02 Jul 2020

Blood Test Could Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression

01 Jul 2020

Precision Medicine-Based Genetic Testing Developed for Prostate Cancer

01 Jul 2020

Diagnostic Assay Developed for Unclassified Severe Combined Immune Deficiency

30 Jun 2020

Detection Rate of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance Determined

30 Jun 2020

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

Erba Mannheim Makes SARS-CoV-2 Testing Available to Labs Everywhere

Erba Mannheim (London, England) has taken up the challenge of providing labs and clinicians everywhere with reliable and affordable solutions to SARS-CoV-2 testing. Read more
03 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: The Fluxergy diagnostic testing system (Photo courtesy of Fluxergy)

Fluxergy Collaborates with Mass General Brigham to Evaluate One-Hour COVID-19 Diagnostic Test

Fluxergy (Irvine, CA, USA) will work with Mass General Brigham (MGB Boston, MA, USA) to further evaluate the company’s innovative Research Use Only (RUO) COVID-19 testing platform, designed to deliver accurate PCR test results in under one hour. Read more
03 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Eurofins Launches CE-IVD Marked Rapid POC Testing Devices to Identify Past Exposure to COVID-19 in 10 Minutes

Eurofins Technologies (Budapest, Hungary) has launched CE-IVD marked rapid point-of-care testing devices to identify a person’s past exposure to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in only 10 minutes. Read more
02 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

T2 Biosystems Launches New COVID-19 Molecular Diagnostic Test

T2 Biosystems, Inc. (Lexington, MA, USA) has completed validation of its COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test, the T2SARS-CoV-2 Panel. Read more
02 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Image: Elecsys IL-6 Test (Photo courtesy of Roche)

Roche Secures FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Elecsys IL-6 Test to Identify Severe Inflammatory Response in COVID-19 Patients

Roche (Basel, Switzerland) has secured Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new Elecsys IL-6 test to help in identifying COVID-19 patients at a high risk of severe inflammatory response. Read more
02 Jul 2020 | COVID-19

Beckman Coulter's SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody Test Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Beckman Coulter (Brea, CA, USA) has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay. Read more
30 Jun 2020 | COVID-19

Blood Test Can Predict Severity of COVID-19

Doctors can now identify COVID-19 patients having the highest risk of severe illness and pinpoint those most likely to need a ventilator by simply examining their blood. Read more
30 Jun 2020 | COVID-19

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. Read more
30 Jun 2020 | Molecular Diagnostics

Image: uPath PD-L1 (SP263) image analysis (Photo courtesy of Roche)

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). Read more
29 Jun 2020 | Pathology

Image: The Hoowaki NP Collection Swab (Photo courtesy of Hoowaki LLC)

New One-Piece Injection-Molded COVID-19 Swab to Enable Expanded Testing

An innovative one-piece injection molded design for a COVID-19 swab could help close the gap in US and global COVID-19 testing supplies. Read more
29 Jun 2020 | COVID-19

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

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 of cancer care, from early detection to personalized treatment and monitoring. Read more
29 Jun 2020 | Molecular Diagnostics

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. Read more
29 Jun 2020 | Microbiology

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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

Image: A Thermo Fisher Orbitrap ID-X mass spectrometer used to analyze blood plasma metabolites in ALS patients (Photo courtesy of North Carolina State University).

Metabolite Profiling Reveals Predictive Biomarkers for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by stiff muscles, muscle twitching, and gradually worsening weakness due to muscles decreasing in size. It may begin with weakness in the arms or legs,... Read more

Molecular Diagnostics

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Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Is a Potential Prognostic Biomarker for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

A recent study has confirmed previous results showing that the protein serum neurofilament light chain is a potential prognostic biomarker for frontotemporal lobar degeneration. The frontotemporal dementias... Read more

Image: Micrograph of hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Diagnosing Liver Cancer by Screening Viral Exposure History

A blood test has been developed that enables diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer by screening for an individual's previous exposure to certain viruses.... Read more

Image: The multi-layer EV-CLUE chip device. The microreactors and connecting channels are visualized by filling with blue food dye. The bottom glass slide is patterned with nanoparticle structures and coated with antibody to capture extracellular vesicles (Photo courtesy of Dr. Yong Zeng)

A Novel Liquid Biopsy Device Enables Early Cancer Detection and Diagnosis

A novel liquid biopsy device for early cancer detection and diagnosis was used to isolate and analyze extracellular vesicles from breast cancer tumors. Evidence has accumulated, which indicates that... Read more

Image: The QIAsymphony SP machine enables sample preparation of DNA, RNA, and bacterial and viral nucleic acids from a wide range of starting materials (Photo courtesy of Qiagen).

Blood Test Predicts Prostate Cancer Treatment Response

Prostate cancer became a bigger killer than breast cancer for the first time, official statistics revealed last year. More than 11,800 men a year - or one every 45 minutes - are now killed by the disease... Read more

Hematology

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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

Image: Doctors recommend that all COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU undergo a thromboelastography (TEG) to test for the risk of forming blood clots. The TEG 6s system provides rapid, comprehensive and accurate identification of an individual’s hemostasis condition in a laboratory or point-of-care setting (Photo courtesy of Haemonetics Corporation).

Thromboelastography Identifies Undetected Blood Clots in COVID-19 Patients

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused more than 400,000 deaths globally. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and other COVID-19–associated coagulopathies occur among patients... Read more

Immunology

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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

Image: The Cytokine Magnetic 30-Plex Panel is specifically designed for quantifying human cytokines, chemokines and growth factors in serum, plasma, and tissue culture supernatant (Photo courtesy of Invitrogen).

Cytokine Signatures of Tertian Malaria Infection Profiled During Pregnancy

Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax is a neglected tropical disease, especially during pregnancy, of worldwide distribution. P. vivax is a protozoal parasite and a human pathogen. This parasite is the most... Read more

Image: CTL- Immunospot Analyzers come in a wide range of models, each of which is designed to make assay analysis faster, easier, and more accurate than ever before (Photo courtesy of Cellular Technology Limited).

Initial Immune Response After Dengue Virus Infection Identified

Dengue virus (DENV) is a member of the clinically-relevant Flavivirus genus together with Zika virus, yellow fever virus and others. With four distinct serotypes, DENV is thought to infect between 280... Read more

Microbiology

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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

Image: Bacteria (green) inside human pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC-1 cells). The cells’ nuclei are stained blue while their cytoplasm is stained orange (Photo courtesy of Weizmann Institute of Science).

Tumor Microbiome Appears to Vary with Cancer Type

Bacteria are well-known residents in human tumors, but whether their presence is advantageous to the tumors or to the bacteria themselves has been unclear. Bacteria found within tumors were localized within... Read more

Pathology

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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

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