Blood Marker Test for Depression
December 2, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Here’s a piece that well illustrates Leroy Hood’s “4 P’s” of personalized medicine (i.e. personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory). Investigators at Northwestern University have identified nine RNA biomarkers in blood that define an individual’s state of depression. Depending on the changing levels of these biomarkers during eighteen weeks of behavioral therapy, this serious illness, which too often ends in suicide and may take two months to three years to diagnose by observable symptoms, can be measured and monitored as never before. MORE
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