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In August it entered the hot area of molecular diagnostics, highly sensitive tests to detect infectious diseases and cancer.
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But gene-based health care is here and now in another form: molecular diagnostics.
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In August it moved into the hot area of molecular diagnostics, highly sensitive tests to detect infectious diseases and cancer.
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Unlike many in the biotech realm, a handful of companies dealing in molecular diagnostics have done well, with good profits and stock prices.
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Thus far, much of the molecular diagnostics field has concentrated on infectious diseases, detecting HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.
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This is a molecular diagnostics firm, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a monopoly of the testing and the ability to put constraints on further research into the sequence.
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For an era of targeted therapies, Private Health runs a full battery of molecular diagnostics "to sequence the entire three billion base pairs of somebody's DNA in a couple of hours, " Mr. Michelson marvels.
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"In the past you needed to do a culture" to test a person's virus, says Jorge Leon, former head of DNA testing at Quest Diagnostics (nyse: DGX - news - people ) and now president of molecular diagnostics consulting firm Leomics Associates.
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It aims to bring together advances in artificial intelligence, wireless sensing, imaging diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, and molecular biology.
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At issue is the way that Medicare reimburses everyone from the big laboratory companies such as the Laboratory Corp of America (LH:NYSE) and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX:NYSE), to the molecular diagnostic labs inside academic hospitals, and especially smaller firms that make proprietary tests used by doctors to more effectively target treatments to patients with conditions like cancer.
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