Outpatient testing must not be encouraged, promoted or advertised. Persons with COVID-like illness not requiring hospitalization should be instructed to stay home. It is safer for the patients and health care workers and testing does not cu

There’s a new entrant in the liquid biopsy space. Well, sort of. Even though OncoCell MDx was formed in 2012, it hasn’t made a great deal of noise up until this year.

A newly-formed partnership between Biodesix and MRM Proteomics could be the key that unlocks the door for better outcomes in lung cancer patients. Earlier this week, the two diagnostic companies announced a deal that would have Montreal-base

A new assay developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University can accurately count the cells that comprise the HIV reservoir- one of the biggest obstacles in curing the disease. The development of the assay could help researchers who are

A simple blood test could help detect whether a newly transplanted lung is being rejected by a patient, even when there arent any apparent signs of rejection. The donor-derived cell-free DNA test was developed by the National Institutes of H

When our kidneys fail to function as they should, our treatment options generally begin with dialysis and end with a kidney transplant. Unfortunately, transplanted kidneys last, on average, between 12 years and 15 years (depending on if the

An innovative new medical instrumentation and biotechnology company known asDaxorjust published some exciting new data for their flagship technology, theBVA-100 blood volume analyzer. The new technology is designed to quantify circulating to

At the close of the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola crisis, the Paul G. Allen Foundation identified diagnostic gaps as one of the major deficiencies that had contributed to the outbreaks spread. The standard diagnostic tests that exist are very

The New York State Department of Health has approved a whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing oncology test developed by the New York Genome Center for clinical testing. According to NYGC, it is the first whole-genome cancer test to rece

The kilogram, kg, ampere, A, kelvin, K, and mole, mol, will have new definitions, but they will be so chosen that at the moment of change the magnitudes of the new units will be indistinguishable from those of the old units. The new definit