Top Clinical News Stories This Month

Read the most popular clinical diagnostic news stories published this month. Articles include a new test for bowel cancer, advances in the search for a liquid biopsy, a smartphone fingerprick test for infectious disease markers, and details of the largest medical laboratory conference in Singapore.

New €25 Blood Test is a Breakthrough in the Diagnosis of Bowel Cancer

Irish scientists are developing a new €25 ($28) blood test for bowel cancer, which could save thousands of lives by spotting the disease at the earliest possible opportunity. The simple check will pick up on antibodies in the blood, produced as the body reacts to the onset of bowel cancer.
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EKF Molecular Diagnostics Collaborates with ANGLE for Liquid Biopsy Development Using Parsortix and PointMan Technologies

EKF Molecular Diagnostics has agreed a collaboration with specialist medtech company, ANGLE plc, to investigate the combination of ANGLE’s Parsortix circulating tumor cell (CTC) harvesting platform with EKF Molecular’s PointMan™ DNA enrichment technology as a liquid biopsy.
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Smartphone, Finger Prick, 15 Minutes, Diagnosis - Done!

A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, Associate Professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can perform a point-of-care test that simultaneously detects three infectious disease markers from a finger prick of blood in just 15 minutes.
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Sheffield NHS Lab Discusses Move to CytoSure™ Arrays

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, explores how Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, UK, has seamlessly transferred to its CytoSure™ ISCA 8x60k platform, in a new case study entitled Evaluating and Switching to CytoSure Microarrays.
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MEDLAB Asia Pacific Returns to Singapore in March 2015
MEDLAB Asia Pacific is the largest medical laboratory conference and exhibition in Singapore. It is a platform for all healthcare professionals working within the medical laboratory sector, and will enable them to witness and share the latest innovations and technology available in the IVD and medical laboratory market.
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