By Lori Solomon, Editor, Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Real-world application of sequencing for targeting pancreatic cancer treatment remains challenging, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research and presented at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting (Philadelphia, April 18-22). Insufficient or nonexistent biopsy samples and slow turnaround times were among the…
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By Stephanie Murg, Managing Director, G2 Intelligence
Roche's portfolio of companion diagnostics now includes a test that can help clinicians to tailor treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the company's Cobas KRAS Mutation Test for diagnostic use. The real-time PCR-based test is designed to…
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By Kelly A. Briganti, Editorial Director, G2 Intelligence
Technology is making use of hospital and laboratory specimens that would otherwise be discarded by connecting those specimen sources with biomedical researchers. iSpecimen (Lexington, Mass.), founded in 2009, links researchers with specimens from participating health care organizations and announced a new technology this month that uses its cloud-based platform, de-identified electronic medical record data and big data analytics to customize and increase the speed of that process…
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By Ron Shinkman, Editor, Laboratory Industry Report
Rosetta Genomics has announced two new molecular tests for detecting bladder cancer.
Both urine-based tests focus on mutations within the FGFR3 gene. One test performs monitoring in order to determine if there have been recurrences of a prior bladder cancer. The other works in conjunction with the Ki67 expression of FGFR3 to provide a prognosis and…
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