News Commentary | January 28, 2019
The NHS U.K. offers free genetic testing for the seriously ill as part of routine care. Now, the NHS will offer genetic tests to anyone, for a fee, with one condition – they must agree to share their anonymized data with the NHS. Having more population‑level genomic data will deepen our ... To read more, click here.
News Commentary | January 09, 2020
We've highlighted how point‑of‑care diagnostics (POCD) for acute conditions like infectious diseases must improve on speed to result, ease of use, reliability, and cost to be relevant. This is one such use case. The portable device uses small capillaries that trap E. coli bacteria (present in most ... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | March 26, 2020
Just days ago, we highlighted a diagnostic test for COVID‑19 that gives a result within an hour. Now that can be done in five minutes, based on a breakthrough in developing an extremely rapid amplification method in Singapore to identify genetic material from a patient's swab. Unlike current ... To read more, click here.
by Nardev Ramanathan
As the coronavirus epidemic becomes a larger global threat, time is of the essence in diagnosing and treating patients. In our recent report, we highlighted how point-of-care diagnostics (POCD) for infectious diseases today still suffer from lack of speed and reliability. Cheek swabs, the primary diagnostic method, employ a PCR-based technique that takes a few hours at best. Alibaba and Ping An have developed an AI-based diagnostic that they claim can detect coronavirus-positive cases with 96% and 90% accuracy within 20 seconds and 15 seconds, respectively, from CT scans. Clients should monitor how these two giants deploy their solutions, especially if thy have interest in partnering to bring these solutions to other markets outside China.
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