Diagnostics

Iterative Scopes and Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Announce Partnership to Advance Next-Generation IBD Treatment

09/30/2021

Access to the Foundation’s unparalleled patient data repository will enrich company’s computational endoscopic approaches to biopharmaceutical research and clinical care for IBD CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in the development of precision-based technologies for treating gastrointestinal diseases, announced today that it has entered into an AI-powered diagnostic tools partnership with the Crohns & Colitis…

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Pliant Therapeutics Reports Positive Interim Results from Phase 2a PET Imaging Clinical Trial in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

09/16/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: – Single dose administration of PLN-74809 achieved αvβ6 target engagement up to 98% in the lungs of IPF patients – All doses achieved target engagement above the threshold for predicted anti-fibrotic activity, with an observed dose-response relationship – PLN-74809 reached highly fibrotic regions of the lung and was bound to αvβ6 in IPF…

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HeartFlow Announces Enrollment of First Three Patients in FUSION Trial

09/16/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: National Health Care Institute of the Netherlands-supported study to evaluate role of the HeartFlow Analysis in reducing unnecessary invasive procedures REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HeartFlow, Inc., the leader in revolutionizing precision heart care, today announced that physicians at Erasmus MC Hospital (Rotterdam NL) have enrolled the first three patients in the…

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Illumina Partners with Merck to Develop and Commercialize Companion Diagnostic and Research Tests for Use in Identifying Specific Cancer Mutations

09/15/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced a partnership to develop and commercialize tests that identify genetic mutations used in the assessment of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). Patients whose tumors are HRD-positive may be…

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Tantu and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Engineer a Living Biotherapeutic for Gastrointestinal Healing

09/14/2021

Tantu will leverage Ginkgo’s foundries to accelerate strain construction as a key step toward human clinical trials Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Tantu, a company engineering living biotherapeutic products to treat gastrointestinal diseases, and Ginkgo Bioworks (“Ginkgo”), which is building the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced a partnership to accelerate the…

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Researchers uncover evolutionary forces at play in the aging of the blood system and identify people at increased risk of blood cancer

09/10/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Discovery could provide early warning for blood malignancies, triggering proactive screening and enabling early treatment Toronto – (August 17, 2021) As people age, mutations can build up in blood stem cells and their clones in a process known as age-related clonal hematopoiesis, or ARCH. ARCH can be a risk factor…

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Stanford AI center’s new platform grants worldwide access to free medical imaging datasets

09/10/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: Stanford University is expanding its free repository of imaging and healthcare datasets for artificial intelligence researchers around the globe. The California school’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging first opened in 2019 and has since amassed annotated datasets for more than 1 million images. AIMI is now partnering…

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Elucid Presents Data Demonstrating Its AI Software Can Uniquely Quantify Key Drivers of Heart Attack and Stroke from Computed Tomography

07/27/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elucid, a medical technology company developing AI software for physicians to optimize the treatment of patients with known or suspected vascular disease, announced today that its founder Andrew Buckler will present findings from two separate studies at the virtual Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 16th Annual Scientific Meeting.…

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SOPHiA GENETICS Advances Blood Cancer Genomic Testing With New Myeloid Solutions

06/08/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SOPHiA GENETICS, the creator of a global data-sharing network that advances data-driven medicine, today released SOPHiA DDM™ for Blood Cancers, novel blood cancer testing solutions across the entire workflow from setup, genomic testing, and in-house advanced analytics. The solutions target the most relevant DNA variants and RNA fusion genes…

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Naveris’ New Saliva Test Detects Head and Neck Cancer

06/07/2021

Excerpt from the Press Release: WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new clinically-validated saliva test has been shown to detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer with high accuracy, a first-of-its-kind study result. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used the Naveris, Inc. test to analyze saliva for sequences of the human papilloma virus (HPV)…

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