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Caris Life Sciences MI Transcriptome

Feb 05, 2019

Caris Life Sciences has launched a whole-transcriptome assay, MI Transcriptome, to sequence the transcriptome of patients' tumors. The assay generates on average 60 million reads per patient to enable detection of fusions, splice variants, and gene expression. The company plans to submit the assay to the US Food and Drug Administration for pre-market approval review in the first half of the year.

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