[Infographic]: A Visual History of LDT Regulation

We’ve covered the LDT regulation evolution for some time now.  To give some perspective we’ve created the following infographic showing the history of LDT regulation.  To use it in your own content check out the code snippet below the infographic.  We only...

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...

Doing it Right, part 3

Here is a story about a remarkable young man who developed his own cancer diagnostic test. Interesting to note that the target chosen by this young man, mesothelin, has known diagnostic and prognostic indications, and yet there is not an FDA-cleared or approved IVD on...

Doing it Right, part 2

More from Matthew Herper at Forbes, this time showing how drug development can be done nimbly. Serial Lifesaver – Forbes.