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Metabolic Disease

News on research and diagnostics for metabolic disorders and metabolic diseases.

Renalytix AI Lands US Government Contract for Kidney Disease Test

The firm said that the contract covers early-stage kidney disease testing that can be provided by more than 140 US government departments, agencies, and affiliates.

Bio-Techne Seeks to Build Out 'Substantial Diagnostics Presence' With Asuragen Buy
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Bio-Techne expects the acquisition will provide it with a basis to build out its IVD presence, given Asuragen's diagnostic tests and regulatory expertise.

RenalytixAI Inks Deal to Introduce Kidney Function Testing Platform at University of Utah Health

RenalytixAI will provide financial support to the University of Utah in the form of sponsored research into kidney disease progression, treatment, and biomarkers.

Global, Local Polynesian Ancestry Influence Disease Risk Among Native Hawaiians

Polynesian ancestry — encompassing genetic and lifestyle factors — affects obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure among Native Hawaiians, a new study has found.

Illumina, New York Healthcare Providers, NYGC Partner on Clinical Whole-Genome Sequencing

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the New York Genome Center will join Illumina to sequence the genomes of thousands of patients.

Oct 7, 2020

Patia Biopharma, Precision Diabetes to Collaborate on Diabetes Biomarker Development

Aug 26, 2020

Sequencing Could Augment Other Newborn Screening Approaches, NC NEXUS Study Finds

Aug 10, 2020

Newborn Exome Sequencing Shows Potential to Help Find Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Jul 15, 2020

Phenylketonuria Genotypes Vary With Geography, Disease Severity in International Study

Jul 10, 2020

Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes Come With Altered Gut Microbiomes

Jul 7, 2020

Exome Analysis of Southwestern American Indians Highlights Metabolic Disease-Linked Variants

Jul 2, 2020

Type 2 Diabetes Associated With Altered Daily Gut Microbe Oscillations

Jun 12, 2020

RenalytixAI Receives Approval From New York State to Offer Kidney Test

Apr 29, 2020

DiscernDx Acquires Luminist Labs

Apr 28, 2020

RenalytixAI, Mount Sinai Launch Study to Predict COVID-19 Kidney Complications
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Jan 21, 2020

Urinary Metabolite GWAS Leads to Risk Variants, Potential Markers of Kidney Disease

Jan 8, 2020

Obesity Polygenic Risk Score Relatively Poor Predictor of Midlife BMI in Longitudinal Study

Dec 2, 2019

Longitudinal Stool Sampling Study Points to Virome Shifts in Children With Islet Autoimmunity

Sep 20, 2019

GWAS in Diabetes Patients Uncovers Risk Loci for Kidney Disease

Sep 9, 2019

Visceral Adiposity GWAS Identifies Hundreds of Genetic Loci

Sep 4, 2019

Body Mass Index Influenced by Different Genetic Factors During Infancy, Later in Life

Aug 2, 2019

Genetic Risk of Obesity Mitigated by Different Exercise Types, Taiwanese Study Finds

Jul 31, 2019

Finnish Exomes Yield New Trait, Disease Associations Involving Rare, Deleterious Variants

Jul 29, 2019

Metabolic Syndrome, Early-Onset Coronary Artery Disease Linked to Mutations in CELA2A

Jul 24, 2019

GX Sciences to Offer Patia Type 2 Diabetes Risk Test in US

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CDC Calls Delta "Variant of Concern"

CNN reports the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now considers the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to be a "variant of concern."

From FDA to Venture Capital

Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn is taking a position at a venture capital firm, leading some ethicists to raise eyebrows, according to the Washington Post.

Consent Questions

Nature News writes that there are questions whether informed consent was obtained for some submissions to a database of Y-chromosome profiles.

Cell Studies on Multimodal Single-Cell Analysis, Coronaviruses in Bats, Urban Microbiomes

In Cell this week: approach to analyze multimodal single-cell genomic data, analysis of bat coronaviruses, and more.