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Respiratory

News on diagnostics for respiratory pathogens, including influenza, coronavirus, and more.

COPD Genetic Risk Factors Vary by Patient Sex, Suggests Research Presented at AMIA

With the help of an internally self-developed analytics tool, University of Pennsylvania researchers run GWAS to uncover sex-specific genetic associations for COPD risk.

Cepheid Sees High Demand for Respiratory Tests Through Remainder of 2021
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After shipping 16 million respiratory test cartridges in the third quarter, the firm forecasts another 16 million tests to be sold in the final quarter of 2021.

Roche Nabs CE Mark for Three Cobas Respiratory Test Panels

The molecular panels, which can be run together or alone, detect and differentiate between common respiratory pathogens.

FDA Warns of Potential False Positives With Abbott SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Tests

The agency said the issue could be related to current mixing parameters of the PCR reaction mixture resulting in overflow in wells of the reagent tray.

Quidel Nabs CE Mark for Savanna Analyzer, Respiratory Panel

The new instrument can analyze up to 12 pathogens from a single sample, while the respiratory panel detects influenza A and B, RSV, and COVID-19.

May 7, 2021

Cystic Fibrosis-Related Airway Cell Changes Revealed in Single-Cell Transcriptome Study

Jan 5, 2021

Single-Cell Sequencing Reveals Immune Contributors to Exacerbated Asthma in Mouse Model

Oct 30, 2020

Spesana Clinical Decision Support Platform Debuts With Proteomics Focus Through mProbe Alliance
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May 4, 2020

GenMark Diagnostics Q1 Revenues Grow 80 Percent

Apr 23, 2020

Veracyte Licenses Lung Disease Genomic Classifier From Yale University

Mar 23, 2020

UK COVID-19 Sequencing Consortium Launches With £20M in Government, Wellcome Trust Funding

Mar 20, 2020

COVID-19 Immune Response to be Mapped by Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft

Mar 4, 2020

Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Celgene Form Biomarker Consortium

Feb 20, 2020

DNA Methylation at Certain Sites May Have Causal Effect on Lung Function, Study Finds

Jan 20, 2020

Multi-Disease Diagnostic Platform Project Receives €22.5M in EU Funding

Jan 9, 2020

Fusion Genomics Wins $1M to Assess NGS-Based Respiratory Tract Infection Assay

Nov 4, 2019

New $22M Study to Use Sequencing, Proteomics to Investigate Pulmonary Fibrosis

Oct 31, 2019

Rare Cystic Fibrosis Mutations Dominate in Caribbean Patients

Oct 28, 2019

Seqster to Support Asthma Study at La Jolla Institute of Immunology

Aug 21, 2019

Aqualung Therapeutics Wins $225K NIH Grant to Develop Respiratory Distress Biomarker Panel

Jun 24, 2019

At ASM Microbe, Stakeholders Discuss Reimbursement Issues for Multiplex Infectious Disease Tests
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May 8, 2019

Quidel Q1 Revenues Fall 13 Percent on Tough Flu Comp, Currency Headwind

Apr 17, 2019

Drug Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections Associated With Pseudomonas Bacteriophages

Feb 26, 2019

COPD Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Numerous Risk Variants

Jan 30, 2019

Curetis Receives Malaysia, Thailand Regulatory Approvals

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The Scan

Steps for Quick Review

The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing for the quick review of drugs and vaccines for the Omicron variant, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Moving Away From Using Term 'Race'

A new analysis finds that geneticists are using the term "race" in their papers less than in years past, as Science reports.

Point of the Program

The Guardian writes that some scientists have called the design of a UK newborn sequencing program into question.

Science Papers Present Multi-Omic Analysis of Lung Cells, Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Proliferation

In Science this week: a multi-omic analysis of lung cells focuses on RIT1-regulated pathways, and more.