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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.

Genomic Test IDs Pancreatic Cysts Likely to Progress to Cancer Better Than Standard Guidelines
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UPitt is hoping the latest data demonstrating the utility of its 22-gene PancreaSeq test will help drive adoption and reimbursement.

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

Based on genome and blood pressure trait data for thousands of individuals, researchers focused in on sodium channel subunits in the kidney and other body tissue.

Genome Sequencing, EHR Machine Learning Method Detects Unnoticed Hospital Outbreaks
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Researchers demonstrated that their method, called EDS-HAT, can pick up outbreaks in hospitals that would otherwise remain undetected.

Cystic Fibrosis Sinus Infections Involve Microbes With Shifting Evolution Patterns

While early-stage Pseudomonas aeruginosa sinus infections were marked by selection for aggregating forms of the bug, genetic drift and genome degradation arose later in infection.

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

Oct 10, 2018

Medicare to Cover UPMC’s Thyroid Nodule Test

Aug 16, 2018

Tufts Medical Center, Collaborators Win $8M NIH Grant to Study NGS in Newborns

Jun 27, 2018

New Pittsburgh Genome Center Plans Sequencing Trial for Cancer Patients Receiving Immunotherapy
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Apr 2, 2018

New TCGA Papers Shed Light on Cancer Development

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Nucleotide Base Detected on Near-Earth Asteroid

Among other intriguing compounds, researchers find the nucleotide uracil, a component of RNA sequences, in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, as they report in Nature Communications.

Clinical Trial Participants, Investigators Point to Importance of Clinical Trial Results Reporting in Canadian Study

Public reporting on clinical trial results is crucial, according to qualitative interviews with clinical trial participants, investigators, and organizers from three provinces appearing in BMJ Open.

Old Order Amish Analysis Highlights Autozygosity, Potential Ties to Blood Measures

Researchers in BMC Genomics see larger and more frequent runs-of-homozygosity in Old Order Amish participants, though only regional autozygosity coincided with two blood-based measures.

Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.