{"id":181930,"date":"2025-10-01T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:45:33","slug":"pacbios-puretarget-simplifies-carrier-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181930\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacbio\u2019s Puretarget simplifies carrier screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 71% of people carry at least one pathogenic variant that could contribute to development of a heritable disorder in offspring, but until now, prospective parents often had to undergo multiple tests to understand their risks. Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. (Pacbio)\u2019s expanded Puretarget portfolio provides a quicker and more streamlined solution as it covers all challenging tier 3 genes identified in the American College of Medical Genetics technical standard.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/85-bioworld-medtech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BioWorld MedTech<\/a> <a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/153-clinical\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clinical<\/a> <a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/258-gynecology-obstetrics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gynecology\/obstetrics<\/a> <a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/254-neonatal-pediatrics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neonatal\/pediatrics<\/a> <a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/256-neurology-psychiatric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neurology\/psychiatric<\/a> <a class=\"topic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bioworld.com\/topics\/401-u-s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to 71% of people carry at least one pathogenic variant that could contribute to development of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59838,49,91936,48,91937,91941,17352,6927,91942,14432,12212,316,91946,91935,91947,91948,91939,91938,91940,91944,66,91719,91943,178,91945],"class_list":["post-181930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-bioworld-medtech","tag-ca","tag-cachexia","tag-canada","tag-cancer-induced-cachexia","tag-carrier-screening","tag-clinical","tag-cystic-fibrosis","tag-gaucher-disease","tag-genetic-disorder","tag-genetic-testing","tag-genetics","tag-gynecology-obstetrics","tag-helmholtz-diabetes-center","tag-neonatal-pediatrics","tag-neurology-psychiatric","tag-pacific-biosciences-of-california-inc","tag-pen-x-acip","tag-puretarget","tag-revio","tag-science","tag-sickle-cell","tag-thalassemia","tag-u-s","tag-vega-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}