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Colorectal Cancer Studies Show Promise of Blood-, Stool-Based Screening
Research teams explored the performance of circulating cell-free DNA and stool DNA testing to find colorectal cancer in average-risk individuals.
Illumina, Genomic Medicine Sweden to Evaluate Sequencing-Based Leukemia Diagnostics
The study will compare whole-genome sequencing and RNA sequencing to conventional diagnostic methods in about 450 acute leukemia patients in Sweden.
Australian Team Developing Saliva-Based Assay for HPV-Driven Oropharyngeal Cancer
The group believes its assay, which detects HPV-16 DNA, could be deployed as a screening test in the way that HPV is currently screened to prevent cervical cancer.
DIAMONDS Project Using New Classification Approach to Develop Rapid Infectious Disease Tests
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Technology partners on the study include BioMérieux and SkylineDx, as well as Imperial College London's biomedical electronics unit.
Clinical investigators have used Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics' qPCR approach in a study to detect M. tuberculosis DNA in the mouths of people at high risk for subclinical TB.