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Study implicates metabolites in chronic pain
Imagine that you are in pain all the time. Not just an ordinary "ouch" type of pain, but burning, tingling, freezing pain, with numbness and itching. That's how neuropathic pain can be. And sometimes Read more...
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Study implicates metabolites in chronic pain
Imagine that you are in pain all the time. Not just an ordinary "ouch" type of pain, but burning, tingling, freezing pain, with numbness and itching. That's how neuropathic pain can be. And sometimes Read more...
Researchers develop simple Alzheimer's blood test
As we age, or as our lives get increasingly busy, we forget things, and joking about "senior moments" is common. But for people with Alzheimer's disease, the forgetfulness and confusion is real, and Read more...
Erythrocyte biomarker could be low-cost iron deficiency marker in anemia
Both iron deficiency anemia and anemia associated with inflammation are common in children in India with chronic infectious disease, such as HIV/AIDS. The deficiency can cause developmental delay, Read more...
Collaboration supports early detection of pancreatic cancer
Molecular diagnostics startup Abcodia is collaborating with Oxford Gene Technology to discover and validate biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic cancer. Abcodia has a serum biobank including Read more...
Catching their breath: Finding biomarkers in COPD
The ECLIPSE (Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints) study is a three-year study created to find biomarkers that could predict worsening of chronic obstructive Read more...
Could kidney damage biomarkers speed drug development?
Drug-induced kidney injury is an important issue for patients, and current biomarkers can bring up false positives, causing drug developers to abandon projects too early. A new collaboration will Read more...
Alzheimer's indicator spikes after surgery
For years, people have talked about the potential of anesthesia being linked to Alzheimer's disease progression without any hard evidence to prove it. With advances in biomarker testing, a small Read more...
Scientists track signal of Alzheimer's link to sleep patterns
Researchers have gathered more evidence that could make sleeplessness a culprit in Alzheimer's disease. They saw that a known marker of the disease, beta amyloid, rose and fell in connection with Read more...
Biomarker research suffers from too much 'hype'
OncLive is the latest publication in the last few months trying to make sense of the slow progress from lab to clinic in what it calls "the vast, ever-changing, and controversial frontier of Read more...
FDA issues guidance on genomic biomarker submissions
Lack of standards is often cited as a reason biomarkers are slow to travel from lab to FDA approval. Perhaps in an answer to that criticism, the FDA has released a new guidance document on Read more...
