Respiratory
News on diagnostics for respiratory pathogens, including influenza, coronavirus, and more.
As the firm continues to develop assays to run on a current batch-based MDx system, it seeks to develop a more flexible, random-access testing platform.
BugSeq Bioinformatics Nabs BARDA Grant to Develop NGS-Based Respiratory Test
BugSeq will optimize a test for commercial clinical use by lowering the turnaround time, reducing interference from host RNA, and analytically validating the platform.
Polygenic Transcriptome Risk Scores for COPD Show Improved Cross-Ancestry Portability
Researchers found that polygenic transcriptome risk scores worked better across ethnicities than polygenic risk scores to predict chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.
Meridian Bioscience Gets Additional $2.5M NIH Award to Develop Revogene Respiratory Panel
The award comes after the company received $5.5 million from the agency last year to support the research, development, and increased production of the test.
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.