POSTS TAGGED AS molecular diagnostics

Placental Growth Factor Marker for Preeclampsia and Premature Delivery

St. Thomas' Hospital, London
“Downton Abbey” devotees may still be grieving over Lady Sybil’s death from eclampsia in last January’s [MORE]

Business Perspective on Molecular Diagnostics

Roche, Qiagen, BD, Novartis, Abbott, Hologic, Agilent/Dako, Cepheid, Seimens Healthcare and bioMérieux are the top ten makers of molecular [MORE]

Stem Cell Model of Pancreatic Cancer

Invasive lesion PDAC
“We were able to predict the appearance of cellular features and protein markers in the intermediate stages [MORE]

UPMC’s Big Data Mine

Late last year, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center launched its $100m data warehouse project which aims to integrate [MORE]

Blood Test for MS

The gold standard for diagnosing multiple sclerosis is the CT scan in which demylenated brain neurons show up as [MORE]

Sequencing Autoimmune Diseases

Using high throughput sequencing, scientists at Queen Mary University in London have carried out the largest sequencing study of [MORE]

Sequencing and Companion Diagnostics in Clinical Labs

Molecular Diagnostics
Amazon S3 and Google’s DNAnexus may not yet be familiar services, but they exist as businesses and [MORE]

Nanoscale Electrical Biosensor

Do cells use the electrical conductance of double stranded DNA to signal activation of repair proteins when needed?  Jacqueline [MORE]

Protein Chip Microarrays

A research team from Stanford and Intel have designed what they hope will become a point-of-care proteomics array.  Like [MORE]

Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia

In a paper titled “Systematic Identification of Genomic Markers of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer Cells,” a research group from [MORE]

How Useful is Sequencing for Disease Prediction?

Dr. Bert Vogelestein
A familiar assertion in “personalized medicine” is that DNA sequencing will be able to predict future health [MORE]

An Accurate Blood Test for Depression

Ridge Diagnostics (San Diego, CA) has developed a panel of nine blood biomarkers that has a 90% sensitivity and [MORE]

“Repairing” RNA

In the most severe forms of Huntington’s disease, a glutamine-coding DNA sequence on chromosome 7, CAG, can be repeated [MORE]

New Blood Protein Diagnostics

Aptamers are oligonucleic acids or peptides that bind with specific molecules, and their existence has been known for about [MORE]