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Illumina Forms New Company to Enable Early Cancer Detection via Blood-Based...
Jan. 10, 2016– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced GRAIL, a new company formed to enable cancer screening from a simple blood test. Powered by Illumina sequencing technology, GRAIL will...
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Circulating Cells In Cancer Patients’ Blood Not Always Cancerous
Tumor-derived endothelial clusters (Image credit:Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology) For decades, clusters of cells commonly found in the blood of cancer patients have always been regarded...
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Veteran Medtech Player Seeks To Commercialize U Of M Blood ‘Washing’ Device
From Admin: Veteran Minnesota medtech consultant Brian Bischoff received a federal grant to commercialize a University of Minnesota-developed device aimed at improving how donated blood is frozen and...
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Accriva Diagnostics Acquired by Werfen and Instrumentation Laboratory
Hemochron, whole blood microcoagulation system (image credit: Accriva Diagnostics ) Accriva Diagnostics, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, announced today the definitive agreement with Werfen, a...
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Biotech Firm Raises $17 Million in Financing Round
Adarza BioSystems Inc., a Henrietta-based company, has raised $17 million in its Series C financing round, officials said Friday. 3×5 RiverVest Fund II L.P. is the lead investor for the round. It is...
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New Lab-on-a-Chip Platform Seeks to Improve Pathogen Detection
Nuclear amplification testing is commonly used for pathogen detection; however, the process is currently manually intensive and complex, and requires dedicated equipment. This prevents its use in some...
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Researchers Make Flexible Glass for Tiny Medical Devices
A graduate student at BYU holds up a disc of microchips that have flexible glass membranes. (Image Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo) Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass...
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Fabrication of All Glass Bifurcation Microfluidic Chip for Blood Plasma...
Abstract An all-glass bifurcation microfluidic chip for blood plasma separation was fabricated by a cost-effective glass molding process using an amorphous carbon (AC) mold, which in turn was...
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Biosurfit 500 spinit® Instruments
Biosurfit SA (“biosurfit”), the in vitro point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics company, is pleased to announce that it has reached a significant commercial milestone, and also provides an update on recent...
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DBS System Raises $2.5M for Micro Blood Collection Device
Microfluidic technology enabling easy blood collection by the user (Image Credit: Hemaxis) DBS System announced it closed its Series A at CHF 2.5M which included the direct investment of a Swiss...
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Theranos Names Former Abbott Diagnostics Executive Cass Grandone as Head of...
Theranos today announced that a key role has been filled on the company’s executive team, with the arrival of Cass Grandone as Senior Vice President of Product Development. Mr. Grandone’s career has...
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Better and Cheaper Healthcare with Dry Blood Samples
A drop of blood on filter paper for future diagnostics. (Image Credit: Johan Björkesten) Dried blood on filter paper stored for future diagnostic purposes – considerably easier than the present-day,...
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‘Liquid Biopsy’ Promises Early Detection for Cancer
Figure 1. A new blood test looks for DNA shed by tumor cells, such as these pancreatic cancer cells. A team of researchers has taken a major step toward one of the hottest goals in cancer research: a...
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Corning and CytoSMART Announce Agreement for Cell Counting Device
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) and CytoSMART Technologies BV today announced an agreement that will simplify mammalian cell counting in laboratories around the world. Cell counting is a critical step...
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