Under the agreement, Genetron gains exclusive rights to develop and commercialize minimal residual disease assays using ImmuQuad's immunogenomics technology.
The program is in its third year monitoring individuals with these mutations to try to detect disease early, understand their risk, and develop preventive treatments.
Transcriptomic and multi-omic data spanning more than 10,000 samples helped map "immunogenomic" interactions that may inform treatment outcomes and targets.
Cancer Moonshot-funded teams are profiling pre-cancers in an effort to establish targeted treatment, detection, and prevention methods that can be applied before cancers form.
A structural variant analysis based on genome sequences for almost 800 multiple myeloma cases suggests a IgL translocation present in nearly 10 percent of patients may inform survival.
The VA decided to bring this testing in house to streamline and standardize the process for doctors and gauge markers that are relevant to the veteran population.
Several groups are comparing Bionano with standard cytogenetic assays like karyotyping, FISH, or array CGH for blood cancer or genetic disease testing.
The New York Times reports that experts say President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 1 million people a day in the US in the next 100 days is too low a bar.