Diagnostics
News and analysis on diagnostic technologies and applications.
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Establish Medicare Coverage Pathway for MCED Tests
The bill would allow Medicare to cover MCED tests following approval by FDA and ensure their use would not impact coverage of traditional screenings.
The assay detects HPV 16 and HPV 18 DNA within 45 minutes and is intended to be used in low-resource settings.
ACMG Adds Three New Genes to Secondary Findings List
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has added three new cardiovascular genes to the latest release of its secondary finding list.
Bio-Techne to Acquire Swiss Spatial Biology Firm Lunaphore
Lunaphore offers its Comet end-to-end spatial biology platform that integrates staining, imaging, and image pre-processing steps into a high-throughput instrument.
Bioinformatics Startup Geneyx Builds Business on Whole-Genome, Long-Read Sequencing Analysis
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A recent data-integration partnership with Oxford Nanopore mirrors one that Israel-based Geneyx already has with PacBio in pursuit of higher diagnostic yields.