The researchers suggested that Ashkenazi Jewish women as well as women of other ancestries might benefit from broader genetic screening for breast cancer risk.
Stakeholders increasingly highlight the need for better, more standardized tools to validate and compare liquid biopsy tests, and commercial firms have responded.
The Inhale project is assessing respiratory disease tests on Oxford Nanopore's MinIon and PCR platforms from Curetis and BioMérieux's BioFire Diagnostics.
The National Coordinator for Health IT sees long-term potential in APIs for secure transfer of clinical and genomic data, but it's not quite there yet on the genomic side.
The announcement comes three weeks after Interleukin said it was laying off 63 percent of its workforce and suspending sales of a controversial genetic test.
The Inhale project is assessing respiratory disease tests on Oxford Nanopore's MinIon and PCR platforms from Curetis and BioMérieux's BioFire Diagnostics.
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What’s been holding back more widespread adoption of liquid biopsy testing?
Lack of adequate circulating tumor DNA reference materials for developing and measuring safe, accurate and reproducible assays has been a challenge for clinical labs
Liquid biopsies are poised to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and therapy, but until now, advances in diagnostic technology - particularly at the low end of the sample input and sensitivity spectrum - have been hampered by the lack of ability of labs to reproducibly measure and assess the assay’s performance.
