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A reference measurement procedure incorporating digital PCR can potentially be used with rare and emerging pathogens to help labs compare qPCR results, researchers said.
NIST Launches Synthetic H5N1 Bird Flu Genetic Reference Material
The material will be freely distributed to diagnostics developers and can be used to safely calibrate in-development assays to detect bird flu.
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Omics, Dx Grants in April, May
Awardees include the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Detect-Ion, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
MDIC Launches Initiative to Improve Accuracy of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Cancer Diagnostics
As part of the initiative, MDIC will manufacture, validate, and distribute reference samples to support the validation of NGS-based cancer diagnostics.
NIST Creating Reference Material for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Assay Developers
The agency is providing the material freely and asking for feedback, so it can fix possible problems before more widely disseminating it to labs and companies.