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Mar 04, 2019

A Drug or What?

The FDA has yet to determine if fecal microbiome transplants should be treated like a drug or like a blood transfusion, the New York Times reports.

Nov 28, 2018

Signature Science Gets CDC Contract to Evaluate Molecular Microbial Detection Methods

Signature Science will assess the validity of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses to detect the transmission of viable pathogens in healthcare settings.

Nov 28, 2018

Johns Hopkins Researchers Working on Tool to Combat C. Difficile Overtesting

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Researchers hope that understanding the etiology of inappropriate testing will help them design a better computerized support tool.

Nov 15, 2018

Hospitals Build Case for Pathogen Sequencing to Track Resistance, Monitor Outbreaks

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Researchers in the US and Europe are implementing pathogen sequencing surveillance programs to track infectious diseases within hospitals.

Nov 08, 2018

Meridian Bioscience Q4 Revenues Grow 7 Percent

The firm saw strong growth in respiratory illness assays and lead testing, which was offset by a decline in C. difficile testing.

Oct 23, 2018

GenePOC's Investment in Small Molecular Diagnostic Panels Validated by Medicare Decision, Company Says

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Palmetto GBA's decision that large syndromic MDx panels may not always be necessary prompted GenePOC's decision to further target smaller panels.

Oct 23, 2018

GenePOC C. Diff MDx Approved in Canada

The test, which runs on the firm's Revogene molecular diagnostics instrument, has now been launched in Canada.

Jul 31, 2018

Meridian Bioscience Q3 Revenues Grow 3 Percent

Meridian's diagnostics revenues grew 1 percent year over year to $36.4 million while its life science revenues jumped 8 percent to $15.4 million.

Jun 07, 2018

Why Do It?

Researchers examine what motivates people to become donors for fecal microbiome transplants, according to the New York Times.

Apr 09, 2018

Vanderbilt Applies DNA Biorepository, PheWAS to Speed Drug Repurposing Research

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"Repurposing starts with the human genome," a precision medicine expert said in explaining Vanderbilt's new approach to accelerating clinical trials.

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The Scan

Whirlwind Genetic Genealogy Year

Wired reports on how genetic genealogy's use in forensics has exploded in the year since an arrest in the Golden State Killer case was made.

Getting Through the Backlog

Retraction Watch reports that the increase in retracted papers at a journal is due to more resources there to tackle publication ethics.

Settlement After DNA Testing Questions

New York City has settled with a forensic scientist who was fired after questioning a DNA testing approach used by the medical examiner's office, the New York Times reports.

This Week in Nature

In Nature this week: technique for measuring replication fork movement, WINTHER trial results, and more.

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