Halo Diagnostics said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to offer Genomic Testing Cooperative's (GTC) cancer genomic profiling assays to its patients. Menlo Park, California-based Halo — formerly Desert Medical Imaging — provides diagnostic imaging and related services for cancer and other conditions at facilities in California, Texas, and Florida. Under the [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific said on Wednesday that it has received CE-IVD marking for its Ion Torrent Reporter Software Aneuploidy Dx Workflows. The CE-IVD Mark covers two workflows: low-pass whole-genome aneuploidy Dx w1.0 and low-pass whole-genome aneuploidy Mosaic Dx 1.0. These workflows are to be used in combination with general, non-in vitro diagnostic products, including [...]
The Allen Institute for Immunology this month publicly introduced a new data-sharing portal called the Human Immune System Explorer (HISE) that the organization hopes will unleash a new wave of longitudinal immunology studies. Initially developed as an informatics framework to support the Seattle-based institute and its partners, HISE is now being released to the [...]
Imagia Canexia Health on Wednesday said it is ready to deploy its comprehensive cancer testing platform in Europe after having fulfilled the requirements for CE-IVD marking. The Imagia Canexia Health Insights Platform (ICHIP) analyzes patients' targeted next-generation sequencing data and generates a report with therapeutic and clinical trial information. Patients first have their blood [...]
Paige on Wednesday said that it will work with Janssen Research & Development to assess the ability of a screening tool developed by Janssen to predict the presence of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) genes in patients with advanced bladder cancer. The test relies on screening hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides and is aimed [...]
A University of Pennsylvania-led team has identified hundreds of kidney disease risk loci, bringing in additional epigenetic, gene expression, single-cell, and functional data to dig into some of the genes, pathways, and cell types behind the genetic associations. "[W]e report a comprehensive analysis of the genetic determinant of human kidney function and show the [...]
Inozyme Pharma said on Thursday that it has partnered with the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) on whole-genome sequencing-based newborn screening for genetic diseases. Through the BeginNGS consortium, the partners will use whole-genome sequencing-based newborn screening to identify infants affected by ENPP1 deficiency and ABCC6 deficiency. Inozyme is developing a novel therapy, [...]
Lunaphore and Indica Labs announced on Thursday a partnership to provide a complete workflow for spatial biology and tissue image analysis. Under the agreement, the two companies will comarket a system that combines Lausanne, Switzerland-based Lunaphore's Comet spatial biology platform and Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Indica's Halo and Halo AI digital pathology image analysis software. [...]
SomaLogic reported Thursday after the close of the market that its first quarter 2022 revenues grew 22 percent year over year, driven by assay services. For the three months ended March 31, the Boulder, Colorado-based company posted revenues of $23.0 million, up from $18.9 million in the year-ago period, missing the consensus Wall Street [...]
Olink reported before the opening of the market Thursday that its Q1 revenues rose 67 percent. For the three months ended March 31, the Uppsala, Sweden-based firm posted revenues of $22.7 million, up from $13.6 million in the year-ago period and above the consensus Wall Street estimate of $20.3 million. Service revenue was $16.6 [...]
