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News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Primary Aldosteronism Foundation creates alliance to tackle hypertension

The Primary Aldosteronism Foundation has announced the creation of a multi-stakeholder alliance to drive diagnosis and treatment of primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension. Among the partners is Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel therapy for the treatment of hypertension. The initiative will facilitate the design and implementation of interventions to […]

September 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Sep 2022

Commercial launch of monkeypox PCR test for research use in laboratories worldwide

A newly developed molecular polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for monkeypox is now commercially available globally for research use only applications. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) and CerTest Biotec made the announcement today (September 26) that the test can be used in laboratories. The teams leveraged the BD MAX System open architecture reagent suite to develop […]

September 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 26 Sep 2022

Rapid diagnostics are needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance

As the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis grows, bacterial infections are becoming harder to treat. Chris Lock, vice president of R&D at the mass spectrometry specialist SCIEX, discusses how rapid diagnostics can help doctors wield antimicrobial treatments more effectively. The AMR crisis is growing increasingly severe, resulting in superbugs that are able to shrug off multiple […]

September 26, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Best in Biotech 21 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest biotech companies making waves in Israel

Despite its small population, Israel hosts a high concentration of startups. Here’s a collection of the hottest biotech companies raising big cash in the Middle Eastern nation. Historically, Israel’s biotech industry has been viewed as secondary to its thriving medtech scene. However, in spite of a population of just 9 million people, the nation has […]

September 21, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 15 Sep 2022

Neuron23 and QIAGEN to collaborate on diagnostic for novel Parkinson’s drug

Neuron23 Inc. and QIAGEN are to collaborate to develop a companion diagnostic for Neuron23’s LRRK2 inhibitor for Parkinson’s disease. Under the agreement, QIAGEN will develop and validate a clinical trial assay that will detect a combination of biomarkers discovered by Neuron23 that together predict the responsiveness of Parkinson’s disease patients to a LRRK2 inhibitor. The […]

September 15, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Sep 2022

New study reveals first genetic links in ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

For the first time in more than 30 years, replicable genetic findings have been reported in the study into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). UK-based PrecisionLife today (September 14) unveiled the results offering new approaches for better diagnosis and treatments of patients. The data has also been submitted for peer reviewed publication and is available […]

September 14, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Results of phase 3 trial of injection for ovarian cancer imaging published

An injection for intraoperative imaging of folate receptor positive ovarian cancer can identify more of the disease than is unable to be identified conventionally. Biotech company On Target Laboratories announced that the results from its phase 3, 006 study of the Cytalux (pafolacianine) injection had been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology yesterday (September […]

September 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Aldatu gets grant to develop Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever test

U.S. biotech company Aldatu Biosciences has been awarded a $3 million Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will fund the advancement of the company’s proprietary PANDAA technology platform and its specific application to the […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Scope Biosciences and WUR to improve CRISPR-Cas technology with new funds

Wageningen University & Research (WUR), and its spinoff Scope Biosciences, have received a grant of €150,000 ($152,000) from the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is to further research and enhance the diagnostic technology ScopeDx. This is based on CRISPR-Cas technology. Uniquely, this technology is able to quickly and accurately recognize viral or bacterial RNA. […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Sep 2022

Reveal Genomics reveals more HER2DX breast cancer validation data

Reveal Genomics, S.L. says it has received more validation of HER2DX, the world’s first specialized genomic test for HER2+ breast cancer. Valentina Guarneri from the University of Padova presented the data at the European Society of Medical Oncology Congress 2022 in Paris, France. The data obtained from the analysis of tumor samples from the PerELISA […]

September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Sep 2022

Liquid-interface assisted SERS could lead to earlier detection of Alzheimer’s

In a new publication in Opto-Electronic Advances, Japanese researchers discussed label-free trace detection of bio-molecules by liquid-interface assisted surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using a microfluidic chip. SERS has attracted attention in biotechnology. This is due to its high sensitivity to localized surface plasmon resonance of nanostructured metals. Trace detection of bio-molecules with large molecular weight […]

September 12, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 6 Sep 2022

Finnish researchers use machine learning to unlock clinical cancer samples’ genomic code

A new paper from the University of Helsinki, published in Nature Communications, suggests a method for accurately analyzing genomics data in archival cancer biopsies. The tool uses machine learning methods to correct damaged DNA and unveil the true mutation processes in tumor samples. This helps to unlock medicine values in millions of archival cancer samples. […]

September 6, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Primary Aldosteronism Foundation creates alliance to tackle hypertension

Commercial launch of monkeypox PCR test for research use in laboratories worldwide

Rapid diagnostics are needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance

The 5 hottest biotech companies making waves in Israel

Neuron23 and QIAGEN to collaborate on diagnostic for novel Parkinson’s drug

New study reveals first genetic links in ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

Results of phase 3 trial of injection for ovarian cancer imaging published

Aldatu gets grant to develop Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever test

Scope Biosciences and WUR to improve CRISPR-Cas technology with new funds

Reveal Genomics reveals more HER2DX breast cancer validation data

Liquid-interface assisted SERS could lead to earlier detection of Alzheimer’s

Finnish researchers use machine learning to unlock clinical cancer samples’ genomic code

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