10 Diagnostics Innovators: Smaller Companies Are Leading the Way

As we have previously reported in this blog, innovation is not a major focus for many of the largest diagnostics companies.  With but a few exceptions, the focus for the largest companies tends to be on selling instrumentation and on developing “me-too” tests, which...

First-Ever Rankings: Top 25 Companies In Precision Medicine

Thanks to one of my LinkedIn contacts, I was introduced to a newly released “scorecard” that ranks pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies based on their precision medicine efforts. In essence, the organizations who made the cut are the ones moving precision...

New Approaches To Identifying Targeted Therapeutics

Making the maximum use of discoveries that have already been made is a central interest of mine, and a couple of recent articles have described novel ways that targeted therapies might be “discovered” for individual patients. A group at MIT has developed a...