Category: Europe

October 11, 2016 Off

Biocartis’ Idylla technology could enhance molecular diagnostic testing

By Dino Mustafić

Biocartis Group NV, a Belgian innovative molecular diagnostics company has published a comparative study organised by AstraZeneca where 12 different KRAS mutation detecting technologies, including Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), were compared for the detection of KRAS mutations in lung cancer, using blinded samples.