A team of investigators led by researchers at the University of Toronto has identified a set of prostate cancer biomarkers for use with non-invasive liquid biopsies for the identification of aggressive tumors before surgery. This new study—“Targeted proteomics identifies liquid-biopsy signatures for extracapsular prostate cancer”—published recently in Nature Communications advances…

When Lorraine Potocki, M.D., attended medical school in the 1980s she didn’t have exposure to a genetics class. Dr. Potocki, a professor at Houston, TX-based Baylor College of Medicine’s department of Molecular and Human Genetics, wasn’t even aware that there were training programs in genetics until her residency was well…

Selah Genomics, a subsidiary of EKF Diagnostics, entered an 18 month collaboration with Greenville Health System (GHS), DecisionQ, and Becton Dickinson and Company (BD). The goal of the alliance is to unite clinical annotations with next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology and artificial intelligence-based algorithms in hope of improving clinical decision making…