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'Yes, And': Genetic Counselors Share Strategies for Embedding Services Into Primary Care
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At the 2023 NSGC annual conference in Chicago, genetic counselors weighed how best to integrate their services into primary care.

CMS Contractor Novitas Rescinds Coverage for Multiple Cancer Genetic Tests

Novitas reviewed, analyzed, and published literature for a variety of genetic oncology tests and highlighted several that it claims are not medically reasonable or necessary.

Hospital Surveillance Sequencing Helps Link Cases to Nationwide Contaminated Eyedrop Outbreak
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University of Pittsburgh researchers detected two drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections using its healthcare pathogen whole-genome sequencing surveillance platform.

Bipolar Disorder Research Initiative Awards $15M for Brain Genetics, Omics Platforms

BD2, a collaboration between three family philanthropies and the Milken Institute, made the awards to two teams for large-scale sequencing and a brain atlas.

Real-Time Surveillance Sequencing Shows Promise for Hospital Outbreak Detection, Prevention
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University of Pittsburgh researchers showed that real-time pathogen whole-genome sequencing can help curb healthcare-associated infections within a hospital.

Oct 5, 2022

Genomic Test IDs Pancreatic Cysts Likely to Progress to Cancer Better Than Standard Guidelines
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Oct 4, 2022

Sequencing Data Helps Elucidate Blood Pressure Ties to Rare Sodium Channel Mutations

Nov 23, 2021

Genome Sequencing, EHR Machine Learning Method Detects Unnoticed Hospital Outbreaks
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Oct 19, 2021

Cystic Fibrosis Sinus Infections Involve Microbes With Shifting Evolution Patterns

Sep 30, 2021

Pancreatic Cancer Data Preview Freenome's Plans for Expanded Cancer Detection Assay
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Aug 19, 2021

Facial Architecture GWAS Finds Novel Loci Associated With East African Facial Features

May 26, 2021

23andMe Begins Reporting PGx Variants With Drug Info Under Recent FDA Clearance
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Jan 28, 2021

OmniSeq, UPMC Partner on Immunotherapy Trial Matching for Head and Neck Cancer

Dec 11, 2020

Genetic Loci Linked to Risk of Rare Takayasu Arteritis Hint at Related Traits

Nov 11, 2020

Adaptive Biotechnologies Prepares to Launch T Cell-Based COVID-19 Test
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Feb 14, 2020

Pittsburgh PGx Effort Aims to Prove Utility in Face of Reignited Regulatory Debates
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Nov 5, 2019

Sonic Healthcare Expands Deal for UPMC's ThyroSeq Thyroid Cancer Test

Oct 21, 2019

Children's Hospital Network Wins $8.5M NIH Grant to Expand Data-Sharing Initiative

Sep 16, 2019

Aethlon Medical Lands $1.9M SBIR Grant for Exosome Isolation Device

Aug 9, 2019

Circadian Expression of Genes Disrupted in Brains of Individuals With Schizophrenia

Jul 18, 2019

Helomics Inks Separate Pacts With UPMC, Interpace Dx for AI-Driven Oncology Decision Making

Apr 15, 2019

DNAnexus, Sutter Health, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center launch Multiple Sclerosis Study

Apr 4, 2019

Epigenetic Therapies May Prime Tumors to Better Respond to Other Treatments, AACR Speakers Say

Feb 19, 2019

NGS Panel Developed to Help Researchers ID Actionable Breast Cancer Mutations, Rx Targets
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Oct 15, 2018

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Indiana U Win $1.3M in NSF Funding for Genomics Program