Africa
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Dx, Omics Grants in August and September
Awardees include Imperial College London, the Africa Health Research Institute, Mylab, CHOP, and the Task Force for Global Health, among others.
The Chinese omics service provider saw its precision medicine and infectious disease business segments decline while reproductive and oncology testing trended upward.
Global organizations are calling for an increase in diagnostic tests — particularly point-of-care molecular assays — to meet the challenge of a new outbreak.
Blood Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Provide Window Into Cerebral Malaria in Affected Children
Extracellular vesicles in the blood were shown to contain clues about gene expression shifts in the brains of children with retinopathy-positive or -negative cerebral malaria.
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Omics, Dx Grants in July
Awardees include PATH, Prolific Machines, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Wits Health Consortium, Washington University in St. Louis, and Cedars-Sinai.