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Researchers get $3.3M to study AI in oral cancer

The U.S. National Cancer Institute awarded the five-year grant to a group led by Anant Madabhushi, PhD, the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering at CWRU and head of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, and Dr. James Lewis Jr., a pathology, microbiology, and immunology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

January 5, 2021

Bruker launches microbe test kit following FDA clearance

Rapid sepsityper identification is crucial for the care of critically ill patients in order to reduce turnaround time for disease-specific treatment, noted Dr. Wolfgang Pusch, executive vice president of microbiology and diagnostics at Bruker. The new test kit can identify microbial species once a blood culture system has detected growth, but it does not test for resistance of antibiotic susceptibility.

January 3, 2021

LabPulse.com Microbiology Insider

Diagnostic testing is key to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, and the earlier that SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected, the better. Researchers from Hong Kong believe they may have found an assay that detects SARS-CoV-2 at a much earlier stage of infection.

October 25, 2020

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July 26, 2020

3D-printed swabs make the grade for COVID-19 testing

A multidisciplinary research team led by first author Cody Callahan of BIDMC's department of radiology and senior author Dr. Ramy Arnaout, PhD, of the institution's Clinical Microbiology Laboratories investigated over 150 swab designs and nearly 50 materials in a multiphase analysis that included preclinical evaluation, assessment of production considerations, and field testing in a clinical trial.

June 11, 2020

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March 25, 2020

LabVantage launches lab information system in North America

The LabVantage Medical Suite laboratory information system (LIS) integrates functions from major health and medicine disciplines, including pathology, genomics, microbiology, and clinical chemistry.

March 4, 2020

C-reactive protein test falls flat in newborns with suspected sepsis

The systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the accuracy of CRP for determining the risk of late-onset infection in hospitalized neonatal patients, most of whom were preterm and had low birthweight. In the studies included in the analysis, CRP was compared with microbiological blood culture results as a reference standard.

February 11, 2020

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November 6, 2019

NIH-funded Lyme test promises better results, at the point of care

Results for an improved version of the mChip-Ld Lyme disease test, which is being developed with support from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), were reported in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology online October 9.

October 16, 2019

Thermo Fisher Scientific unveils products at AACC 2019

To support the optimization of decisions and patient outcomes, Sensititre Aris HiQ AST utilizes broth microdilution to provide microbiology laboratories with accurate minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) results, according to the company. Thermo Fisher Scientific said that it has collaborated with pharmaceutical companies to include a large selection of antimicrobials, enabling access to new therapies for multidrug-resistant infections. Laboratories can also use the system to create their own custom AST plates from more than 300 antimicrobials in broad dilution ranges to consolidate and reduce offline testing, according to the firm.

August 5, 2019

Arc Bio showcases Galileo pathogen detection platform

GPS-Transplant is the first product to become available in Arc Bio's Galileo pathogen solutions line, with the company unveiling the assay at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Clinical Virology Symposium in Savannah, GA.

April 30, 2019

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