4 disruptive trends that are shaping the future of clinical diagnostics
(WorldNews Switzerland)

By Markus Vogler The world of diagnostics, like so many other industries, is entering what leaders in the World Economic Forum are calling the fourth industrial revolution. Digitalization, robotization and automation have given rise to highly flexible `smart factories` as well as laboratories that can handle both routine/high volume analyses and highly customized analyses at competitive prices. This is coupled with an ongoing integration of the entire value chain - from subcontractor to customer. As this wave of integration expands to encompass different fields of science such as biotechnology, genetics and nanotechnology, it is leading to an accelerated rate of change that generates new and...