Aggressive prostate cancer disproportionately affects—and kills—African American men, but identifying which men are at highest-risk has proved challenging, particularly in younger patients. Veracyte Inc.’s Decipher prostate genomic classifier could help identify these men with early, localized prostate cancer at the greatest risk of aggressive disease, a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found.
The U.S. response to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic may by now be the stuff of public health policy lore, with both the FDA and the CDC contributing to the chaos in the first months of the pandemic. The Office of Inspector General has issued an analysis of the situation, and while OIG revisited some of the known miscues, the report also made the case that a national strategy for pandemic response will be needed if federal government efforts in the future are to be less a hazard to the lives of American citizens than those seen in the first half of 2020.
While no one can tell the future, a panel of autoantibodies developed by researchers at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Perlmutter Cancer Center may give physicians a much better idea about how a patient will respond to immunotherapy. That could help improve therapy selection by accurately predicting whether a patient’s cancer will recur following immunotherapy or they will experience autoimmune side effects as a result of treatment, a study published in Clinical Cancer Research on Sept. 15 found.
Verici Dx plc reported positive results in the initial validation of its pre-transplant blood test for predicting the risk of early acute kidney rejection.
The U.S. FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to Potrero Medical Inc. for its AKI Predict machine learning algorithm for the advanced prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) associated with intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) in intensive care patients recovering from cardiac surgery.
Despite wide availability and coverage for colonoscopy, many patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) have never undergone the recommended screening procedure for the malignancy and its precursors. As a result, the cancer has already spread in the majority of cases at the time of diagnosis. CRC remains the third most common cancer diagnosed in the U.S. and the second leading cause of cancer death for both men and women.
Nutromics Pty Ltd. has raised $14 million to build out its wearable diagnostic platform that uses DNA sensors to track multiple targets in the body using a single patch.
Researchers from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) in Los Angeles are developing a contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes. These are nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential to be diagnostic cancer biomarkers. The team published its work and findings in August 2022 in Advanced Functional Materials.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers in collaboration with South Korean cosmetic giant Amorepacific Corp. have created a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin” for sensing and transmitting vital medical signs minus larger, clunkier chips or batteries in most smartphones. MIT postdoc Jun Min Suh explained any change to the skin’s conditions, such as an accelerated heart rate, affect the sensor’s mechanical vibrations, generating an electrical signal that automatically transmits medial data to the consumer.
Carbon Medtech (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. reported that it has raised “tens of millions of yuan” from its pre-A+ round financing. This financing was jointly led by Jinding Capital and Shenzhen Small & Medium Enterprises Credit Financing Guarantee Group Co. Ltd.