As medicine advances toward more individualized care, clinical diagnostics are playing an increasingly vital role. Traditionally, diagnostic tests have been used to identify and classify diseases.

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The last decade has seen a significant shift in how patients with cancer are diagnosed and managed through the clinical application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. Large-scale tumor ...

Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, today announced that the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has updated its Clinical Practice ...

The onset of COVID-19 proved to be a real-time stress test of America’s clinical testing system. The experience exposed several flaws in the system that policymakers should address, specifically, ...

The global clinical laboratory market is projected to grow 74% between 2019 and 2027 to $404 billion, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. The rise in infectious disease ...

Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is a field of research primarily concerned with genetic influences on an individual’s ability to metabolize medications. In drug metabolism, genetic variants lead to altered ...

Diagnostic test developers, including clinical laboratories, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with inspiring creativity to meet patient testing needs. These developers found unique ways to enable ...

This workshop examined how clinical practice guidelines can impact adoption of genomics into routine medical care and how guidelines for genomic testing are developed by various organizations and ...

Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the ...

Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Versus Upfront Surgery for Resectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Long-Term Results of the Dutch Randomized PREOPANC Trial An increasing number of ...