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Justin Petrone covers consumer genomics, ancestry testing, and the microarray and biochip sector of the genomics market for GenomeWeb.

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Dec 11, 2019

Array Genomics Sets Out to Build Business for Bladder Cancer Test

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The British molecular diagnostics company received a CE-IVD mark for the assay, called BCA-1, in June, and launched the test in October.

Dec 04, 2019

UK Researchers Implement Diagnostics.ai System to Improve Infectious Disease Testing

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After comparing manual methods with the firm's pcr.ai tool in more than 20,000 cases, they found that the use of AI improved test accuracy and reliability.

Dec 03, 2019

MedGenome, Thermo Fisher Array for South Asians to Support Consumer, MDx Test Development

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The personalized medicine company hopes to use the new array to inform new consumer and clinical tests, while also making it available to others for research.

Nov 19, 2019

Startup PHIX Genomics Aims to Introduce Clinical Molecular Diagnostics to Philippines in 2020

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Clinical genomics is just one business area for PHIX, which also intends to sell genomic tools and introduce a variety of agriculture and lifestyle-focused tests.

Nov 14, 2019

Kailos Genetics, Doc.ai Partner With Stanford on Epilepsy Digital Health Trial

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The trial aims to combine personal information, pharmacogenomics data, and machine-learning tools to select the best anti-seizure medication for patients. 

 

 

Nov 12, 2019

India's IndiGen Project to Sequence 20K Genomes, Support New Clinical Applications

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The government-backed project aims to better understand genetic diversity around the South Asian country while helping to inform clinical applications.

Oct 31, 2019

New Early Cancer Detection Alliance to Trial Bevy of New Technologies and Tests

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The number of technologies to be assessed is vast, and ranges from liquid biopsies and molecular imaging to immunohistochemistry and RNA-seq.

Oct 24, 2019

UK Firm Genomics Sees New NHS Report, Disease Detection Program as Boon to Business

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While the Oxford, UK-based company has focused on drug development partnerships to date, it is also keen to see uptake of genetic disease risk screening by the NHS.

Oct 17, 2019

Cypriot Researchers Win €15M to Fund Biobanking Center, Cyprus Human Genome Project

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The EU will fund the effort through 2026, but the Cypriot government will contribute an additional €15 million over the next 15 years.

Oct 09, 2019

Japanese Informatics Firm Genomedia Sees SCRUM Cancer Project as Path to Wider Adoption

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By participating in the project, the company, located in Tokyo, hopes to improve its cloud-based data management services while winning over new customers.

The Scan

Gene Editing for the Gold

Gene editing could be an issue competitive sports need to address soon, four researchers from Arizona State University write at Slate.

Variant Linked to Heart Failure Risk

A genetic alteration appears to increase heart failure risk among people of African descent, according to the Washington Post.

A Different Future

In his look back at the past decade, BuzzFeed News' Peter Aldhous writes that direct-to-consumer genetic testing has led to "Facebook for genes."

Nature Examines Lifespans, Fast and Accurate Method for Long-Read Assembly, More

In Nature this week: genetic "clock" that can predict the lifespans of vertebrates, new assembler called wtdbg2, and more.

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