In its IPO prospectus, the company shared plans to broaden the use of its methylation technology from cancer screening to diagnostics and residual disease monitoring.
Carlsbad, California-based BioSpyder said that HTG has repeatedly and baselessly accused it of infringing HTG's patent for quantitative nuclease protection assay and sequencing improvements.
Caris will sequence DNA and RNA for certain cancer patients and potentially help Merus enroll cancer patients with NRG1 fusions in the Phase I/II eNRGy trial for zenocutuzumab.
The firm has collected important health economic evidence for its clinical lung cancer assay and is building evidence for other products in additional cancer types.
If the results are validated, investigators believe the method could help diagnose patients without the need for a needle biopsy and with fewer false positives.