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Karius Taps Capstone Health Alliance to Broaden Patient Access to Infectious Disease Testing

Doctors at Capstone member hospitals will be able to more easily order the Karius Test for patients harboring hard-to-diagnose infections. 

Karius Receives NY State Approval for Infectious Disease Liquid Biopsy Test

The permit covers the test for all five pathogen categories: bacteriology, mycobacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and virology.

Karius Cell-Free DNA Method to Detect Infection Validated in Study
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The liquid biopsy test compares fragments of cfDNA to a reference database of more than 1,400 microbial pathogens to determine infection.

Karius to Widen Adoption, Improve Infectious Dx Technology With $165M Series B Funding
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The firm argues that its tests allows hospitals to expedite patient treatment, while curbing the costs of one-off tests and medication, and minimizing the length of a patient's stay. 

Karius Raises $165M in Series B Financing Round

The firm will use the funding to expand access to its microbial cell-free DNA technology to help doctors diagnose infectious disease.

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Genetic Testing Approach Explores Origins of Blastocyst Aneuploidy

Investigators in AJHG distinguish between aneuploidy events related to meiotic missegregation in haploid cells and those involving post-zygotic mitotic errors and mosaicism.

Study Looks at Parent Uncertainties After Children's Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diagnoses

A qualitative study in EJHG looks at personal, practical, scientific, and existential uncertainties in parents as their children go through SCID diagnoses, treatment, and post-treatment stages.

Antimicrobial Resistance Study Highlights Key Protein Domains

By screening diverse versions of an outer membrane porin protein in Vibrio cholerae, researchers in PLOS Genetics flagged protein domain regions influencing antimicrobial resistance.

Latent HIV Found in White Blood Cells of Individuals on Long-Term Treatments

Researchers in Nature Microbiology find HIV genetic material in monocyte white blood cells and in macrophages that differentiated from them in individuals on HIV-suppressive treatment.