TEST:

Mercy Halo™ Test

"Mercy BioAnalytics, Inc...announced it has closed a $41 million Series A financing round....Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance development and commercialization of the Mercy Halo test for high-risk lung cancer screening, the company’s lead clinical indication....Funds will also be used to advance clinical programs in additional indications, including ovarian cancer, for which 80 percent of cases are diagnosed at Stage III or Stage IV with poor long-term survival. Mercy intends to leverage its Mercy Halo liquid biopsy platform technology to develop a broad portfolio of tests for the early detection of cancer....Mercy will be presenting additional new data at the upcoming AACR conference in Orlando, Florida this month, and at the upcoming International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) annual meeting in Seattle, Washington in May."

Tumor-derived EVs are a robust analyte for liquid-biopsy assays which can readily be detected using our platform technology. This PoC study suggests Mercy Halo can discriminate all stages of HGSOC from benign and healthy samples in human plasma with high sensitivity and specificity and is being investigated for extensibility in other cancers and diseases.

"Mercy BioAnalytics™...announced that the Mercy Halo™ Ovarian Cancer (OC) assay substantially outperformed CA125 when distinguishing patients with early-stage high-grade serious ovarian cancer (HGSOC) from women with benign conditions in a new study to be presented next week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting. The assay uses a novel method of analyzing biomarkers based on individual extracellular vesicles (EVs)...Mercy’s assay shows promise in improving on CA125 by distinguishing stage I/II cancer from benign ovarian tumors and could have clinical utility for both early detection and surgical referral recommendation for benign and malignant ovarian tumors,'...."