oral cancer
Salignostics, Sheba Medical Center Partner on Saliva-Based Oral Cancer Test
If the initial collaboration is successful, the partners aim to expand their work to include other malignancies including head and neck cancer.
Direct-to-consumer microbiome tests often go beyond what the research can support, but the large databases being generated by some companies are supporting diagnostic development.
Viome Life Sciences Raises $67M in Series C Financing
The firm said it has raised more than $150 million in total funding, and the new financing will support development of its assay product pipeline.
The firm also hopes to use its metatranscriptomics approach to develop diagnostics and therapeutics for a variety of other disease areas.
The approach could allow doctors to more accurately and more easily identify which patients are free from cancer after radiation treatment.