Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed education and research institutes worldwide to make a huge digital leap, forcing them to switch physical facilities with online ones and readapt services and processes to be 100% virtual.
A single test that scans the entire tumor RNA landscape increases the detection of gene fusions nearly one and a half times in childhood cancer, a new study from investigators at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in the Netherlands has found. RNA sequencing, the authors expect, will soon replace traditional diagnostic methods as genetic abnormalities in childhood cancer can be immediately included as part of new diagnoses allowing patients to benefit as quickly as possible from new findings in basic research.