Articles about Diagnostics

Microsoft and the microbiome: Viome works with tech giant to optimize AI for molecular health

Viome, a life sciences startup founded by veteran tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to scale its… Read More

Spokane startup Gestalt Diagnostics raises $7.5M to advance AI-enabled cancer detection

Gestalt Diagnotistics, a Spokane, Wash.-based healthcare startup, has raised $7.5 million to enhance its artificial intelligence tools for digital pathology… Read More

Universal blood test from Microsoft and Adaptive is a Google-sized data challenge

A novel effort from Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies to diagnose multiple diseases from a single blood test is a data… Read More

No poop required: Researchers devise blood test for gut microbiome diversity using data from defunct startup Arivale

If you want to know what’s going on in your gut microbiome, the community of bacteria in our intestines that… Read More

Artificial intelligence scores another victory in diagnosing breast cancer

Human doctors once again fell short of artificial intelligence in a test to accurately diagnose breast cancer, adding yet more… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies will triple size of its Seattle HQ following IPO

Adaptive Biotechnologies is charting a massive expansion of its Seattle headquarters following the completion of a recent initial public offering.… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company… Read More

Microsoft-backed universal blood test could start diagnosing disease ‘within a small number of years’

REDMOND — A groundbreaking system that would use artificial intelligence to diagnose several diseases from a single blood test may… Read More

Say what? University of Washington researchers create smartphone app to detect ear infections

Like dirty diapers and sleepless nights, ear infections are just one of those things that come with having a young… Read More

How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic

Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people,… Read More

Researchers use tiny tricks to pull out precious protein data from a single cell

Scientists have developed a technique that can analyze fluid from a single human cell to identify its proteins — which could… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Phoresa is creating a ‘pregnancy-style’ test for infectious diseases

Pregnancy tests, even those done in hospitals or clinics, are very straightforward. Some urine plus a detector and you have… Read More

ID Genomics consortium to build national database of bacterial ‘fingerprints’ to help doctors diagnose infection

There’s a reason bacteria take up almost an entire kingdom in our map of life: they are an endlessly complex… Read More

Prevencio announces successful study of predictive blood tests for coronary heart disease

Prevencio, a Kirkland, Wash., based biotech startup, announced today a successful study on its suite of blood diagnostic tests. The… Read More