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Image: The Agilent Bioanalyzer microfluidics-based platform (Photo courtesy of Agilent Technologies).

Blood Test Predicts Personalized Depression Treatment

A blood test has been developed that accurately and reliably predicts whether depressed patients will respond to common antidepressants, which could herald a new era of personalized treatment for people with depression. More...
22 Jun 2016
Image: A blood film of a pediatric patient with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Photo courtesy of Dr. Peter Maslak, MD).

Two New Types Of Childhood Leukemia Discovered

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a rare disease, but the most common form of cancer in children and nowadays the treatment is very successful, but requires intense interventions at the risk of causing many side effects. More...
22 Jun 2016
Image: A SURVIV analysis of breast cancer isoforms developed at UCLA. Blue lines are associated with longer survival times, and magenta lines with shorter survival times (Photo courtesy of Professor Yi Xing).

Biomarkers Could Give Cancer Patients Better Survival Estimates

Cancer patients are often told by their doctors approximately how long they have to live, and how well they will respond to treatments, but there is a way to improve the accuracy of doctors' predictions. More...
21 Jun 2016
Image: The Guardant360 kit for biopsy-free tissue sequencing for cancer (Photo courtesy of Guardant Health).

Comprehensive Liquid Biopsy Guides Metastatic Cancer Treatment

Liquid biopsies offer a promising approach for identifying druggable genomic alterations, which is the ability of a portion of a genome to be targeted by a drug, especially by a small molecule drug, without the need for costly and invasive tissue biopsies. More...
21 Jun 2016
Image: The MassARRAY system for iPlex single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping (Photo courtesy of Sequenom).

Genes Identified That Increase Children's Risk Of Blood Infection

Bacteremia is a bacterial infection of the bloodstream, and a major cause of illness and death in sub-Saharan Africa but little is known about whether human genetics play a part. More...
16 Jun 2016
Image: The mobile suitcase laboratories. The mobile set up was built to host all reagents and equipment to perform the SpeedXtract (left suitcase). Another suitcase was used to perform the RPA assay (right suitcase) (Photo courtesy of University of Gottingen).

Mobile Suitcase Laboratory Rapid Detects Visceral Leishmaniasis

Leishmania donovani (LD) is a protozoan parasite transmitted to humans from sand flies, which causes Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) and currently, the diagnosis is based on presence of the anti-LD antibodies and clinical symptoms. More...
15 Jun 2016
Image: The cobas epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR Mutation Test v2 (Photo courtesy of Roche Molecular Systems).

Blood Test Detects Gene Mutation Associated with Lung Cancer

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer and NSCLC tumors may shed tumor DNA into a patient's blood, making it possible to detect specific mutations in blood samples. More...
14 Jun 2016
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