biomarkers
4 stories tagged "biomarkers"
Your Celiac Blood Test Can Read Normal While Your Gut Stays Damaged
The standard antibody test can read perfectly normal while a celiac patient's intestine stays inflamed. In one Oslo cohort, a nine-protein blood signal tracked the damage the antibodies kept missing.
Brain & AgingAnti-Tau Alzheimer's Drugs Keep Hitting Their Target and Missing the Disease
Tau is the new headliner at the Alzheimer's conference, but the anti-tau antibodies keep proving they bind the protein while doing nothing for patients. The clearest win so far is a blood test.
CancerA Cancer Algorithm Found Answers in 71 Children. The 'Quantum' Label Is the Least Interesting Thing About It.
A University of Utah team used the linear algebra of quantum mechanics to pull two survival predictors from just 71 neuroblastoma patients. The science is real. The word doing the marketing is not.
CancerA Repair Gene Turns Saboteur, and a $4 Billion Drug Class Sees an Opening
A Penn State lab found that too much of the DNA repair gene EXO1 makes ordinary tumors behave like BRCA-mutant ones in a dish, and respond to the same drugs. The science is clean. The market context is not.