Northwestern University
The Northwestern University spinout's COVID-19 test returns results in 15 minutes using a single-use cartridge and portable analyzer.
NIH Earmarks $170M for All of Us Program's Personalized Nutrition Study
The project will use genomic and other health data from All of Us Research Program participants to study factors that can inform personalized nutrition recommendations.
State-Regulated Illinois Health Plans Subject to Biomarker Test Coverage Mandate Starting 2022
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The law requires state employee, Medicaid, public school, and small employer plans to cover evidence-based biomarker testing, a change that will readily impact cancer patients.
The aim is to improve the accuracy of the protein measurements commonly reported as the output of proteomic experiments and uncover obscured biological signals.
Lurie Children's Hospital Details Migration of Clinical Diagnostics Lab to hg38 Reference Genome
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At the AMP 2020 annual meeting, the Chicago pediatric hospital described how to modernize variant calling, as new human genome assemblies are in the works.