Friday, January 28, 2011

Dennis Lo's paper on non-invasive Down's syndrome diagnostics is finally published in the British Medical Journal

The proof of concept of the test, which will be brought to market to market by the San Diego-based company Sequenom, Inc (NASDAQ: SQNM) sometime this year showed very high accuracy in a reasonably large clinical trial. We salute Dennis Lo and Sequenom on these results and hope that the tests will be launched to general public as soon as possible.
Now that we know that the test works, Sequenom has a moral duty to the pregnant women to bring it to market as soon as possible and reduce the number of unnecessary invasive procedures and resulting spontaneous abortions and damage to the fetus.

Here is a link to the story and Sequenom's press release
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Professor-Dennis-Lo-Trisomy-prnews-709814539.html?x=0&.v=1

Press Release Source: Sequenom, Inc. On Wednesday January 12, 2011, 2:45 pm EST

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequenom (Nasdaq:SQNM - News) is very pleased to note the publication in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2011;342:c7401) of a groundbreaking international study led by our longstanding collaborator, Professor Dennis Lo of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Building on early work from the Lo laboratory, the present paper is the first report of a large-scale clinical study that validates a noninvasive, plasma DNA-based approach for prenatally detecting Down's syndrome (T21). Sequenom congratulates the research team for their achievements.

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Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM - News) is a life sciences company committed to improving healthcare through revolutionary genetic analysis solutions. Sequenom develops innovative technology, products and diagnostic tests that target and serve discovery and clinical research, and molecular diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Sequenom maintains a Web site at http://www.sequenom.com to which Sequenom regularly posts copies of its press releases as well as additional information about Sequenom. Interested persons can subscribe on the Sequenom Web site to email alerts or RSS feeds that are sent automatically when Sequenom issues press releases, files its reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission or posts certain other information to the Web site.

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