Mayo Clinic Names Head of New Digital Healthcare Platform
John Halamka, M.D., will oversee Mayo Clinic Platform as it carries out initial projects focused on home healthcare scheduling, patient data uploading, and supplying patient-specific treatment information based on Mayo Clinic data.
Elysium Health Launches At-Home Test to Measure Rate of Aging, Biological Age
Elysium Heath also announced Morgan Levine, Ph.D., of Yale School of Medicine has joined the company as head of bioinformatics to improve the testing methodology of Index, with the goal of making its application accurate and informative for individuals.
Promega to Develop MSI Technology as CDx to Merck’s Keytruda
Promega’s MSI testing is designed to functionally measure the genomic accumulation of insertion or deletion (INDEL) errors caused by a deficient mismatch-repair system (dMMR) that occurs in certain types of solid tumors.
Qiagen, DiaSorin Launch Automated Workflow for QFT-Plus in U.S. Following FDA Approval
QFT-Plus is designed to offer streamlined laboratory automation for latent TB screening, supporting conversion from century-old tuberculin skin tests to fourth-generation blood-based QuantiFERON technology.
Pre-Surgical Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Shows Positive Results
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and nine other centers, presented interim results at the American Society of Clinical Oncology...
Metabolic Imbalance Associated with Resistance to Checkpoint Inhibitor Nivolumab
Investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, have discovered that a metabolic imbalance...
8 Companion Diagnostic Developers Making a Mark
If companion diagnostics (CDx) were people, they would be old enough to drink. The first CDx won FDA approval in 1998, when Dako Denmark...
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Checkpoint and Combination Therapy Overview
Checkpoint immunotherapy development continues to grow at an incredible rate—as of 2018 there were more...
Duke Researchers Show How Stem Cell Mutations Arise and Metastasize in the Colon
The researchers used a Cancer rainbow (Crainbow) modeling system for fluorescently barcoding somatic mutations to directly visualize the clonal expansion and spread of oncogenes.
Artificial Intelligence Enhances Oncology
The volume of information that needs to be analyzed to make precision medicine a reality in cancer care is often beyond the realm of the human mind. That’s where artificial intelligence steps in