Focus area
Global South
Diagnostics for the developing world and resource-limited settings, where access, decentralisation and cost decide impact.
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Point of Care
Same-Day Hepatitis C Test-and-Treat Model Trialled Using Antibody-Only Screening in Three Countries
Significance 6/10 Molecular DxGenetic Testing Reshapes the Diagnostic Workup for Childhood Nystagmus
Significance 3/10 Molecular DxLancet Microbe Review Maps the Expanding Toolkit for Isoniazid-Resistant TB Diagnostics
Significance 7/10 Point of CareCRISPR-Based Point-of-Care Tests Push Toward Practical H. pylori Screening
Significance 5/10 Point of CareRapid Diagnostics and Opportunistic Infections Drive Mortality in Advanced HIV Cohort in Brazil
Significance 6/10 Point of CarePortable Biosensor Combines Two Thalassemia Screening Assays with 90% Concordance to Gold Standard
Significance 6/10Landmark studies
Global South
49 studies
AI System Diagnoses Acute Aortic Syndrome From Non-Contrast CT, Cutting Time to Diagnosis by 70%
Nature medicine
2025
Landmark-class
WHO 5th Edition: Genomics-Driven Reclassification of Myeloid Neoplasms
Journal of clinical pathology
2025
Landmark-class
AI-Guided Screening with Digital Stethoscope Doubles Detection of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Nature medicine
2024
Landmark-class
Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Shows 81.6% Efficacy in Phase 3 Nepal Trial
The New England journal of medicine
2019
Landmark-class
Lancet Series Calls for National Lab Plans and 4% Health Spending on Pathology in LMICs
Lancet (London, England)
2018
Landmark-class
Permethrin-Treated Baby Wraps Cut Childhood Malaria Incidence by 66% in Ugandan RCT
The New England journal of medicine
2025
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PanEcho: AI System Achieves Complete Echocardiography Interpretation Across 39 Measurements
JAMA
2025
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DeepGEM: Deep Learning Predicts Gene Mutations from Routine Histology Slides in Lung Cancer
The Lancet. Oncology
2024
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Neonatal Sepsis: A Lancet Seminar on Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Urgent Need for Better Diagnostics
Lancet (London, England)
2024
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Lancet Prostate Cancer Commission: Projected Case Surge Demands Diagnostic Capacity Scale-Up
Lancet (London, England)
2024
Landmark-class
Lancet Roadmap: Fixing Pathology and Lab Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Lancet (London, England)
2018
Landmark-class
Fingerstick Hepatitis B DNA Testing with Xpert Assay Enables Decentralised Viral Load Monitoring
Journal of clinical microbiology
2026
Significance 7/10
Antimicrobial Resistance in 2025: Global Landscape, New Antibiotics, and the Promise of AI-Enabled Stewardship
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
2025
Significance 7/10
Integrated Biomedical Innovations in HIV and STI Prevention, Diagnostics, and Service Delivery
Lancet (London, England)
2025
Significance 7/10
EFLM Conference Maps New Frontiers in Preanalytical Quality -- From AI to Liquid Biopsy Challenges
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
2025
Significance 7/10
Urine-Based HPV Testing by Real-Time PCR Achieves 82% Sensitivity in Meta-Analysis of 15 Studies
Journal of clinical microbiology
2025
Significance 7/10
IFCC Consensus: Recommendations for Managing Point-of-Care Testing Outside Hospitals
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
2023
Significance 7/10
Lancet RCT: Intravenous Ferric Carboxymaltose Did Not Reduce Anaemia at 36 Weeks in Malawian Pregnancies
Lancet (London, England)
2023
Significance 7/10
AI-Powered Point-of-Care Testing: Transforming Lateral Flow, Microscopy, and Haematology
Annals of laboratory medicine
2023
Significance 7/10
Commercially Available Typhoid Rapid Tests Fall Short of Diagnostic Accuracy Requirements
Journal of clinical microbiology
2022
Significance 7/10
Whole-Genome Sequencing Transforms AMR Surveillance From Local Outbreaks to Global Strategy
Genome medicine
2022
Significance 7/10
Ultrasensitive Diagnostics Target the Hidden Reservoir of Asymptomatic Malaria
Journal of clinical microbiology
2021
Significance 7/10
AI and Global Health: From Tuberculosis Diagnostics to Disease Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings
Lancet (London, England)
2020
Significance 7/10
Rapid Immunochromatographic Test Detects and Serogroups N. meningitidis from CSF in Under 15 Minutes
Journal of clinical microbiology
2020
Significance 7/10
Laboratory Diagnosis of Human Brucellosis: Culture, Serology, and Molecular Methods Compared
Clinical microbiology reviews
2019
Significance 7/10
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Point-of-Care HIV Viral Load Testing: Essential for Sustainable Global Treatment Targets
Clinical microbiology reviews
2019
Significance 7/10
Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay Enables Pre-Symptomatic Screening in HIV Patients
Journal of clinical microbiology
2019
Significance 7/10
HIV Diagnostics: From Serologic Assays to Molecular POC Testing for Epidemic Control
Clinical microbiology reviews
2018
Significance 7/10
Hcp1-Based Rapid Immunochromatography Test Offers Improved Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Melioidosis
Journal of clinical microbiology
2018
Significance 7/10
CRISPR-Cas Systems as Rapid Nucleic Acid Detection Tools for Pathogen Diagnostics
Genome medicine
2018
Significance 7/10
TaqMan Array Card Tests CSF for 21 Meningitis Pathogens in a Single 2.5-Hour Run
Journal of clinical microbiology
2017
Significance 7/10
Point-of-Care Microbiology Labs: Bringing Rapid PCR Diagnostics Closer to Patients
Clinical microbiology reviews
2016
Significance 7/10
Biomarker-Based POC Tests for Preeclampsia Could Transform Maternal Care in Low-Resource Settings
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
2016
Significance 7/10
Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Patient Self-Testing and Near-Patient Diagnostics
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
2024
Significance 6/10
Molecular Diagnostics Offer Faster H. pylori Detection and Resistance Prediction Than Culture
Clinical chemistry
2023
Significance 6/10
High-Throughput Whole-Slide Scanning: Strategies for Building Large-Scale Digital Pathology Repositories
The Journal of pathology
2022
Significance 6/10
Nanopore Sequencing for Tuberculosis: Promise and Gaps in Current Evidence
Journal of clinical microbiology
2021
Significance 6/10
CRISPR-Based SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics: Rapid Alternatives to RT-qPCR
Clinical biochemistry
2021
Significance 6/10
Multiplex PCR for Shigella flexneri Serotyping Validated Across Seven International Laboratories
Journal of clinical microbiology
2019
Significance 6/10
POC Diagnostics for Infectious Disease: From Lateral Flow to Molecular Platforms
Journal of clinical microbiology
2017
Significance 6/10
SYBR Green qPCR on Noninvasive Swabs Matches Biopsy Accuracy for Leishmaniasis Diagnosis
Journal of clinical microbiology
2016
Significance 6/10
Persistent Diarrhoea: How Multiplex PCR Is Changing Diagnostic Workup
JAMA
2016
Significance 6/10
Dried Blood Spot Analysis by Mass Spectrometry for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Clinical biochemistry
2016
Significance 6/10
IHC4+C Breast Cancer Recurrence Score Robust to Staining and Scoring Variation
Journal of clinical pathology
2015
Significance 6/10
Radiotherapy Innovation for Low-Income Settings: AI, Deep Phenotyping, and Real-Time Targeting
The Lancet. Oncology
2024
Significance 5/10
Adopting AI-Enabled Digital Pathology in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practical Framework for Developing Countries
Diagnostic pathology
2023
Significance 5/10
Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Diagnosing Ocular Infections
Clinical microbiology reviews
2021
Significance 5/10
Six-Year Review of Rickettsial Isolation from Blood Using Mammalian Cell Culture in Laos
Journal of clinical microbiology
2020
Significance 5/10
Real-Time PCR for Tuberculous Meningitis: High Specificity but Limited Sensitivity in CSF
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
2019
Significance 5/10