Diagnostics

A collection of 10 posts

Diagnostics

Early pregnancy tests were wild

For the better part of 40 years, pregnancy tests were done by injecting urine into animals and seeing what happened. No, seriously!

Genomics

The $100 genome is a myth

The $100 genome is a myth, let's focus on the $0 one instead.

Diagnostics

Metagenomics hits the clinic to diagnose CNS infections

Whole genome metagenomics is better than the standard of care in detecting the causal bugs of CNS infections

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Start-Upomics

Let's Get Checked buys TruePill to take on end-to-end at home healthcare

Diagnostics

Assay failures are common in the clinical lab, here are 5 of my favorites.

Troubleshooting assay failures is a second full-time job in R&D. Here are my top 5 'favorite' root causes!

Diagnostics

Parkinson's Disease gets a new risk factor

A recent survey of 2,000 families with Parkinson’s Disease has turned up a new risk factor: a variant in RAB32

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Start-Upomics

Grail might have been too bold a choice for a company name

Diagnostics

APOE4: no longer just a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, it's a genetically distinct form of the disease!

This genetic distinction bears the gift of new tools to predict onset and track disease progression.

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Diagnostics Featured

Long-reads are coming to clinical diagnostics in short order

Omics Featured

Three predictions for all things omics in 2024

Brian Krueger’s predictions for all things Omics in 2024