SECAUCUS, N.J. and SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians in the United States can now order the liquid biopsy-based Target Selector™ NGS Lung Panel test directly from Quest Diagnostics ...

The promise of scientific and medical innovation often comes with a downside: improvements in care benefit some people, but not all. Without concerted effort, that is exactly what could happen with ...

A blood-based liquid biopsy test detects early-onset colorectal cancer with strong diagnostic performance and high ...

Biopsies are a necessary burden for people with cancer. Taking a small sample of tissue and sending it through genetic and molecular analysis can help doctors not just diagnose cancer, but also learn ...

Guardant Reveal™ is industry’s first blood-only test able to detect, with 7-day turnaround time, residual disease after surgery and recurrence months earlier than current standard-of-care methods ...

A simple blood test could be on the way to replacing the biopsy as the gold standard for detecting cancer, saving lives and money, according to researchers in the UK. Share on Pinterest Researchers ...

Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test was found to be highly accurate, sensitive, and specific for both NASH ...

Blood tests can tell us a lot about what’s going on in our bodies—from whether we’re eating too much sugar to whether we’re harboring any infectious diseases. Scientists lately have been working on ...

A couple years ago, Sibel Blau, an oncologist outside of Seattle, was working with the company Guardant Health to test their novel “liquid biopsies” in patients. The idea behind liquid biopsies is ...

Editor’s Note: H. Gilbert Welch is professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the author of “Less Medicine, More Health – 7 Assumptions that Drive Too ...