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Hummingbird Diagnostics Announces Publication of miLung Small RNA-Based Blood Test for Early Detection of Lung Cancer in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Proprietary small RNA signature (miLung)-based blood test may support early lung cancer detection in primary care settings Results also presented in a poster at ASCO 2023 July 11, 2023 03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time22 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time HEIDELBERG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH, a leader in reading blood-based small RNAs for early disease detection and characterization, today announced a publication in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology following a poster presentation at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Annual Meeting on the miLung small RNA blood test for early-stage lung cancer detection. The results of the study provide...

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Hummingbird Diagnostics to Present Poster on miLung Small RNA-Based Blood Test at the ASCO 2023 Annual Meeting

June 23, 2022 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time HEIDELBERG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH, a leader in reading blood-based small RNAs for early disease detection and characterization, today announced a poster presentation at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Annual Meeting on the miLung small RNA blood test for early-stage lung cancer detection. Details of the poster presentation are as follows: Title: Early detection of lung cancer using small RNAs Presenting Author: Bruno Steinkraus, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Hummingbird Diagnostics Session Title: Developmental Therapeutics – Molecularly Targeted Agents and Tumor Biology Abstract: #3035 Poster Board: #233 Location: Hall A Date/Time: June 3, 2023 from 8:00...

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Clexio and Genetika+ announce partnership using proprietary antidepressant screening platform

Feb 06, 2023, 08:11 ET TEL AVIV and PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — As part of a shared commitment to bring better solutions for people suffering from depression, Clexio and Genetika+ are partnering to screen and characterize Clexio’s antidepressant pipeline using Genetika+’s iPSC-derived neurons platform. Genetika+’s platform encompasses >200 neuronal lines from depression patients with in-depth clinical and demographic characterization and multiple assessments over the course of 12 months, as well as proprietary multi-modal biomarker read-outs on these neurons. The Genetika+ platform allows, for the first time, assessment of the functional effects of drugs directly on human neurons, the key target cells...

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Wastewater Testing Labs Can Automate Sample Processing for High Throughput With All-In-One Kit

New purification system launched by Promega includes Ceres Nanosciences’ Nanotrap® particles for virus concentration MADISON, Wis.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wastewater testing labs can now scale up their infectious disease surveillance using two reliable technologies in a single kit. The new system released by Promega Corporation pairs the company’s Maxwell® HT chemistry with Ceres Nanosciences’ Nanotrap® particles, an established technology for capturing and concentrating low-abundance analytes such as viral particles. Together, these technologies empower labs to purify pathogen nucleic acids from wastewater samples in high-throughput workflows. “Ceres has a technology that enables concentration of microbes from wastewater that is unique to the market”Tweet this “Ceres has a...

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Ceres Nanosciences Receives $1.4M From NIH RADx Initiative to Add Five Additional Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Centers of Excellence

Manassas, Virginia – December 2, 2022 Ceres Nanosciences (Ceres), a privately held company that makes innovative products to improve life science research and diagnostic testing, is announcing today that it is expanding the network of wastewater-based epidemiology centers of excellence that was established with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RADx® initiative. With a new $1.4 million award from the NIH, Ceres will identify and establish five additional centers of excellence to join the existing network of 16 sites comprising public health labs, non-profit labs, university labs, and commercial testing labs in 14 states. Ceres also will support the verification of...

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Genetika+ Snags CE Mark for Major Depressive Disorder Drug-Matching Test

October 19, 2022 | Staff Reporter – genomeweb NEW YORK – Genetika+ has obtained CE-IVD marking for its first drug-matching test focused on major depressive disorder (MDD), the precision medicine startup said Wednesday. The Israeli company’s product, a blood test dubbed NeuroKaire, is ordered by a physician. It predicts a patient’s likelihood of responding to various antidepressants by combining patient-reported information about symptoms with pharmacogenetics testing and functional testing based on the patient’s blood sample.  The company’s CE mark follows results from a multi-site study, in which NeuroKaire successfully predicted drug response for patients with MDD. “This CE-IVD mark is an...

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