February 16, 2022 Clinical Research/Diagn.

KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and PacBio Collaborate in Asia’s First Study of Unexplained Neurodevelopmental Disorders

SINGAPORE and MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and PacBio (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing platforms, today announced a collaboration to leverage PacBio technology in understanding the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders. As part of the Bringing Research Innovations for the... Read more

December 9, 2021 Acad, Gov/Utilities Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools

FDA Approves NGS-Based Companion Diagnostic for EGFR Exon20 Insertion Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Tumor Tissue

FDA Approves NGS-Based Companion Diagnostic for EGFR Exon20 Insertion Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Tumor Tissue CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic (CDx) to help identify non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients... Read more

November 29, 2021 Clinical Research/Diagn.

GE Healthcare Introduces An Industry-First Modular, Scalable CT Platform to Minimize Technology Obsolescence & Maximize Clinical Capabilities

GE Healthcare introduces the industry’s first[i] computed tomography (CT) platform with built-in scalability and upgradability[ii] The new Revolution Apex platform offers the world’s fastest gantry speed: 0.23 seconds per rotation and 19.5 millisecond effective temporal resolution to freeze cardiac motion[iii] Altogether, the company’s CT platform enables healthcare facilities to keep up with the latest technology... Read more

November 29, 2021 Clinical Research/Diagn.

GE Healthcare Introduces An Industry-First Modular, Scalable CT Platform to Minimize Technology Obsolescence & Maximize Clinical Capabilities

GE Healthcare introduces the industry’s first[i] computed tomography (CT) platform with built-in scalability and upgradability[ii] The new Revolution Apex platform offers the world’s fastest gantry speed: 0.23 seconds per rotation and 19.5 millisecond effective temporal resolution to freeze cardiac motion[iii] Altogether, the company’s CT platform enables healthcare facilities to keep up with the latest technology... Read more

November 29, 2021 Acad, Gov/Utilities Clinical Research/Diagn. M&A, Partnerships

Cancer Patients may get Faster and more Personalized Treatment as result of Collaboration between GE Healthcare, University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s hospital

Teams plan to cooperate on the development of a machine learning-based solution, aiming to improve care for cancer patients by giving cancer care teams access to complex data and information The potentially transformative solution will initially focus on ovarian cancer and will then expand for use in breast and kidney cancer.  Cambridge/Chalfont St Giles, UK;... Read more

November 18, 2021 Clinical Research/Diagn. Microscopy Product Launch

Roche launches cobas 5800, a new molecular diagnostics system to expand access to testing and improve patient care

Infectious diseases, such as those infections transmitted via respiratory, sexually and transplant, are becoming increasingly difficult to manage and represent an ever-growing medical need for millions of patients worldwide. Access to accurate and reliable diagnostic tests help clinicians improve patient care, limit healthcare spending and contribute to protecting public health. The cobas 5800 System is... Read more

November 17, 2021 Clinical Research/Diagn.

Karolinska Institutet & MedTechLabs Kickoff The World’s First Clinical Evaluation of GE Healthcare’s Photon Counting CT Technology with Deep Silicon Detectors

Photon counting CT has the promise to further expand the capabilities of traditional CT Karolinska Institutet and MedTechLabs’ pilot study represents the first of its kind to test pure silicon CT detector technology for photon counting CT in a clinical setting The project is the result of close collaborations between healthcare, academia and business Chicago,... Read more