• A Simple Swab Could Change How Doctors Detect Endometrial Cancer

    Clinical Research News | For the roughly 1.3 to 2 million women who visit their doctor each year with abnormal postmenopausal bleeding, the diagnostic journey has long been an uncomfortable one. The standard workup typically involves an endometrial biopsy—an invasive, often painful procedure that, despite its widespread use, fails to yield a conclusive diagnosis in more than 30% of cases. Two veteran diagnostics executives think there's a better way, and they're betting nearly $45 million in venture funding on it.

    Jun 16, 2026

  • Urine Liquid Biopsy Shows Strong Promise for Guiding Bladder Cancer Treatment — Clinical Trials on the Horizon

    Clinical Research News | A novel urine-based liquid biopsy developed at Stanford University is showing remarkable accuracy in predicting bladder cancer recurrence and may soon reshape how clinical trials enroll and treat patients. The test, developed by urologic oncologist Joseph Liao, M.D., and colleagues, filters out age-related background mutations in urine to produce a cleaner, more reliable signal for detecting residual cancer after surgery and immunotherapy.

    Jun 11, 2026

  • The Scope of Things: Measuring Equity in Cancer Care

    Clinical Research News | In the latest episode of The Scope of Things, Eugene Manley, Jr., founder and CEO of the STEMM & Cancer Health Equity Foundation, explains how underrepresented populations, including Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, rural, low-income, immigrant, underinsured, and uninsured communities, are less likely to receive guideline-aligned biomarker testing and less likely to be asked about clinical trial participation at all.

    Jun 9, 2026

  • Regulatory Outlook in Diagnostics Innovative and Uncertain

    Clinical Research News | The diagnostics industry is at the intersection of enormous clinical development and technological change, enabling first-ever detection milestones heavily driven by artificial intelligence and multi-biomarker tests. But it has increasingly been coming into conflict with a decades-old regulatory system that didn’t anticipate these technological changes and a political environment that favors U.S. competition and innovation but is also interested in cutting the budget.

    Jun 4, 2026

  • A ‘Credit-Score-Like’ Risk Assessment System for Investigative Drugs

    Clinical Research News | VeriSIM Life is building the “full-stack predictive infrastructure” to help pharma companies foresee the challenges ahead in translating a molecule from laboratory discovery to a successful human therapy. The help comes in the form of a dynamic, “credit-score-like” assessment of the risk with inherent explainability and trust.

    Jun 3, 2026