Clinical Sequencing
News on sequencing-based testing, NGS gene panels, & diagnostic exomes in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Local Cancer Genomic Profiling Options Grow, Though Central Labs Will Likely Keep Major Role
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As economic and practical challenges of next-gen sequencing have eased in recent years, more groups are bringing comprehensive cancer genomic testing in house.
DNAe, Imperial College London, U of Leicester to Develop NGS-Based Breast Cancer Monitoring Test
The project comes with an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership award, which formalizes a collaboration between DNAe and Imperial College London.
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Inivata Partner on Clinical Liquid Biopsy Studies
Inivata's InVisionFirst-Lung and RaDaR assays will support studies of the use of liquid biopsies in early and minimal residual disease detection.
FDA Recognizes Portion of MSK Oncology Knowledge Base in Public Human Genetic Variant Database
MSK's OncoKB is the first collection of somatic variants that the FDA has accepted for test developers to use in premarket validation studies.
The company said the results highlight precision oncology implementation challenges and its test's ability to help overcome these issues.