Investors keep the faith in cancer liquid biopsies

NEWS 05 August 2019 Correction 03 June 2020 Correction 03 June 2020 Investors keep the faith in cancer liquid biopsies Despite slow uptake in the clinic, liquid biopsy tests incorporating

methylation and other signatures are showing increasingly compelling data for non-invasive detection of cancer. By Cormac Sheridan0 Cormac Sheridan Dublin, Ireland

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Nature Biotechnology 37, 972-974 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41587-019-00022-7

Updates & Corrections Correction 03 June 2020: An earlier version of this article omitted mention in Table 1 of Guardant360’s FDA breakthrough device designation 15 February 2018

Correction 03 June 2020: The Table 1 incorrectly stated that MirXes’ products were at research stage when GastroClear has been available in Singapore since its approval on 9 May 2019 by the

Singapore by the Health Sciences Authority.

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