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The reference material will help crime laboratories accurately analyze genetic evidence that has degraded or contains DNA from multiple individuals.

NIST Releases New Forensic Genetic Reference Material to Help Crime Laboratories Analyze Challenging Cases

National Institute of Standards and Technology

DNA laboratories can use the samples to help train analysts and validate forensic tests

Experts Recommend Testing Children for Underdiagnosed Genetic Heart Condition

Family Heart Foundation

Recommendations by multidisciplinary panel published in the Journal of Pediatrics leverage evidence-based approaches to accelerate diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia

The Mount Sinai researchers trained AI models to quantify disease on a spectrum, offering more nuanced insight into how disease risk plays out in real life.

Mount Sinai Researchers Use AI and Lab Tests to Predict Genetic Disease Risk

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital

AI model uses common data to gauge risk from rare genetic variants

The younger patients, especially those between the ages of five and eight, responded best to the treatment.

Gene Therapy Restored Hearing in Deaf Patients

Karolinska Institutet

New gene therapy well-tolerated and improves hearing in all 10 patients with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment

Rapid in-house companion diagnostics can transform lab workflows and help pharma reach more patients, faster.

FDA Approves NGS Companion Diagnostic for ZEGFROVY and Tumor Profiling

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Oncomine Dx Express Test on the Ion Torrent Genexus Dx Integrated Sequencer generates results in as little as 24 hours to support timely therapy decisions

Females have two X chromosomes, males have one X and one Y chromosome, and it is common for males to lose the Y chromosome in some of their cells as they age.

Loss of Y Chromosome Leads to Poor Cancer Outcomes

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

New findings could lead to improved immunotherapy options for male patients

An illustration of many small, colorful rectangles on a black background to represent data generated from a genetics DNA sequence mapping.

Introducing a New Single-Cell Multiomics Workflow for Sequencing-Ready Libraries in Less than 10 Hours

Tecan, BioSkryb Genomics

The new workflow enables scalable, high-throughput analysis of hundreds to thousands of single cells, advancing applications in cancer research, drug development, and precision medicine

Optimizing Genetic Health Risk Testing: The Power of Preanalytical Systems

Today's Clinical Lab

Join Today’s Clinical Lab with experts from Targeted Genomics and DNA Genotek for an in-depth discussion on the role of Genetic Health Risk Tests (GHR) in advancing personalized healthcare, and how integrating sample collection devices validated for their analytical performance can enhance the reliability and accessibility of GHRs