{"id":171971,"date":"2025-10-01T04:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:13:12","slug":"pacbios-puretarget-simplifies-carrier-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171971\/","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":171972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35668,77193,77194,77198,13030,4413,77199,10708,8802,916,77204,77192,77205,77206,77196,77195,77197,77202,90,77201,77200,5134,56,54,55,77203],"class_list":["post-171971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-bioworld-medtech","tag-cachexia","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vega-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}