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Guardant Health to License IP to Foundation Medicine for $25M, Royalties Under Settlement Agreement

The parties have agreed to settle patent infringement lawsuits filed by Guardant against Foundation Medicine, now a Roche subsidiary.

Foundation Medicine, InformedDNA Partner to Expand Genetic Counseling for Cancer Patients

Patients with genomic profiling test results showing potential inherited cancer gene variants will be able to undergo genetic counseling and follow-up germline testing.

People in the News: New Appointments at Foundation Medicine, Sophia Genetics, Circulogene; More

Nonprofit Friends of Cancer Research Launches Public-Private HRD Harmonization Project

The consortium aims to harmonize the use of homologous recombination deficiency as a biomarker to guide certain treatment types in cancer patients.

Foundation Medicine Licenses Mutation Detection Technology From TwinStrand Biosciences

TwinStrand's duplex sequencing correction technology can detect ultra-low frequency DNA mutations that are otherwise often obscured by technical noise.

Nov 17, 2020

Diagnostics Firms, Lab Providers Form Genomic Profiling Coalition

Nov 9, 2020

FDA Approves Foundation Medicine Liquid Biopsy Test as CDx for Lynparza

Nov 2, 2020

Regulatory Documents for Newly Approved Liquid Biopsy NGS Panels Detail Diverse Test Claims, Methods
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Oct 27, 2020

FDA Approves Foundation Medicine Liquid Biopsy Test as CDx for Three Targeted Therapies

Oct 26, 2020

FDA Approves Foundation Medicine CDx, Bayer's Vitrakvi for NTRK Patients

Sep 18, 2020

Foundation Medicine, Takeda Collaborate to Develop CDx for NSCLC Therapies

Sep 16, 2020

Startup Stitch Bio Bets on CRISPR Tech to Render Cancer Cells With Gene Fusions Druggable
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Aug 28, 2020

Stakeholders Scramble to Predict Impact of HHS Move Limiting FDA Ability to Regulate LDTs
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Aug 27, 2020

Foundation Medicine Liquid Biopsy Gets FDA Approval for Multiple Companion Diagnostic Indications

Aug 17, 2020

Foundation Medicine, OneOncology Partner to Bring Precision Oncology to Community Practices

Aug 5, 2020

TargetCancer Foundation Initiates Precision Medicine Study for Rare Cancers

Jul 24, 2020

TMB Harmonization Effort Yields Calibration Method to Correct Inter-Assay Variation
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Jul 10, 2020

Presence of cfDNA, CTCs Predicts Recurrence in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Jun 30, 2020

Foundation Medicine Shifts Focus to Early Cancer Detection With Lexent Bio Acquisition
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Jun 19, 2020

People in the News: Geoffrey Oxnard, Christopher O'Connell, Thierry Bernard, More

Jun 12, 2020

Foundation Medicine Acquires Lexent Bio to Expand Liquid Biopsy Platforms

May 20, 2020

FDA Approves Lynparza With Myriad, Foundation Med CDx Tests in HRR-Mutated Prostate Cancer

May 18, 2020

Roche's Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, Genentech Launch Clinico-Genomic Lung Cancer Study

May 6, 2020

FDA Approves Novartis' Capmatinib, Foundation Medicine CDx for Metastatic NSCLC

Apr 18, 2020

Incyte's Pemazyre, Foundation Medicine CDx Get FDA Approval for FGFR2-Mutated Bile Duct Cancer

Breaking News
The Scan

Missed Early Cases

A retrospective analysis of blood samples suggests early SARS-CoV-2 infections may have been missed in the US, the New York Times reports.

Limited Journal Editor Diversity

A survey finds low diversity among scientific and medical journal editors, according to The Scientist.

How Much of a Threat?

Science writes that need for a provision aimed at shoring up genomic data security within a new US bill is being questioned.

PNAS Papers on Historic Helicobacter Spread, Brain Development, C. difficile RNAs

In PNAS this week: Helicobacter genetic diversity gives insight into human migrations, gene expression patterns of brain development, and more.