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Top Five Articles on 360Dx Last Week: NIH Funds Syphilis Dx; Sentencing in COVID Fraud Case; More
Last week, readers were most interested in a story about 10 new awards from NIH aimed at simplifying the testing process for congenital and adult syphilis.
The UCLA-led research team used synthetic peptides and a machine learning-developed algorithm to create a test for the detection of Lyme disease antibodies in serum samples.
A five-year, $4.6 million NCI grant will help the researchers advance their EFIRM electric field-based DNA detection platform toward potential regulatory approval.
The device, which relies on magnets to move small amounts of fluid into different reaction chambers, can perform multiplexing and pooled testing.
UCLA researchers developed an extracellular vesicle-based surface protein assay for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma.