But now Celera swears it is making progress--in the more low-key world of diagnostic testing.
This put you into contact with one of the products produced by diagnostic testing company Meridian Bioscience.
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Compared with patients in El Paso and nationwide, patients in McAllen got more of pretty much everything more diagnostic testing, more hospital treatment, more surgery, more home care.
In America, the Food and Drug Administration strictly regulates diagnostic testing for disease, but has been slow to extend its oversight to the public implications of genomics.
Over the past four years, enough Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets have been delivered to protect almost 1 billion people, along with enough diagnostic testing and treatments to reach hundreds of millions.
Medical spending for a breast-cancer survivor, for instance, averaged an estimated fifty-four thousand dollars in 2003, the vast majority of it for the initial diagnostic testing, surgery, and, where necessary, radiation and chemotherapy.
The researchers in the Science Translational Medicine paper, working directly with Illumina, first developed a diagnostic test that captured 600 genes that were likely to be the reason the babies wound up in the NICU. That panel is being sold as a kit by Illumina and will likely be used by some commercial laboratories that have government certifications to do diagnostic testing.
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Courts have previously rejected patents on diagnostic methods that involve testing a patient and then running the results through an algorithm to come up with a diagnosis.
Ironically, this fact was explicitly recognized in the Hatfield-Exxon legislation of 1992 that led to the present moratorium -- legislation that expressly contemplated additional underground tests would be necessary to prepare the U.S. stockpile, diagnostic tools and scientific cadre for a permanent ban on nuclear testing.
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