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Sensitive and Specific Cancer Blood Test

DNA methylation
In an international collaboration led by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Mayo Clinic, researchers found a high level [MORE]

AI Predicts Neurodegenerative Disease from a Blood Sample

AI analyzes blood to predict neurodegenerative diseases
“A new study published today illustrates that artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of blood samples [MORE]

CTC Blood Test for Prostate Cancer

Blood testing for CTCs
The prostate specific antigen test that is widely used to detect prostate cancer is famously inaccurate.  For [MORE]

A Blood Test for Relapsed Breast Cancer

Mammogram of breast cancer
Dying breast cancer tumors release declining levels of mutant DNA into the blood, unless those tumors are [MORE]

Predictive Protein Profile of Alzheimer’s Disease

Protein changes in blood forecasts Alzheimers
This may be your father’s NFL or your mother’s, though in this case NfL refers [MORE]

Simple Blood Test for Metabolites

PKU test
Quoting directly: “researchers at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de [MORE]

Cell Free RNA Blood Test for Premature Birth

Infant blood test
Building on research in Denmark, Stanford University biologists identified cell free RNA in mothers’ blood that can indicate [MORE]

Detecting Alzheimer’s Decades Earlier

Beta amyloid plaque
Misfolded amyloid beta, forming plaques, has long been suspected as a key to understanding how Alzheimer’s disease causes [MORE]

Blood Test for Pregnancy and Fetal Health Complications

Blood Test
During pregnancy, a protein derived from the DLK1 gene on Chromosome 14 rises in the mother’s blood, though it [MORE]

Highly Accurate Blood Test for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis

Blood Test
Screening more than 9,000 proteins with protein microarrays, researchers at the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine (Glassboro, NJ) have [MORE]

Blood Test for Irritable Bowel

GI Anatomy
Irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel syndrome, celiac disease and other GI tract problems present similar symptoms and none are [MORE]

Inexpensive Blood Testing Device

V-Chip
Researchers in Houston have a prototype of a microfluidics device that can test for 50 substances (e.g. drugs, toxins) [MORE]

Biomarkers for Schizophrenia

Even the tag “behavioral disorders”-meaning psychiatric diseases-is vague.  However, the search is now on to identify protein biomarkers in [MORE]

New Biomarker Test for Breast Cancer

Provista Life Sciences (Phoenix, AZ) is now marketing in 41 states a “Biomarker Translation Test” or “BT Test” for breast [MORE]