Medical research
Team's study reveals hidden lives of medical biomarkers
What do medical biomarkers do on evenings and weekends, when they might be considered off the clock?
Oct 12, 2018
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News tagged with biomarker
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
First-of-its-kind Parkinson's biomarker guidelines invigorates drive for treatments
Parkinson's disease affects more than 4 million people worldwide, with numbers projected to double in the next few decades. With no known cure, there is a race for treatments to slow or stop the progression of the disease. ...
Aug 15, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers link animosity in couples to inflammation, bacteria in bloodstream
Married people who fight nastily are more likely to suffer from leaky guts—a problem that unleashes bacteria into the blood and can drive up disease-causing inflammation, new research suggests.
Aug 15, 2018
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Cardiology
Older adults who get physical can lower their heart disease risk
Adults in their early 60s, who spend less time sitting and more time engaged in light to vigorous physical activity, benefit with healthier levels of heart and vessel disease markers, according to new research in Journal ...
Aug 8, 2018
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Medical research
Troves from a search for new biomarkers: blood-borne RNA
It's the critical first step in treating everything from strokes to cancer: a timely and accurate diagnosis. Today, doctors often rely on biomarkers, such as cardiac troponin, the protein that appears in the blood after a ...
Jun 12, 2018
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Medical research
Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon
Taking a biopsy of a brain tumor is a complicated and invasive surgical process, but a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis is developing a way that allows them to detect tumor biomarkers through a simple ...
Apr 26, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Neurocognitive risk may begin before treatment for young leukemia patients
Leukemia itself, not just side effects related to its treatment, may increase the risk for long-term problems with attention, organization and related neurocognitive skills in survivors of the most common childhood cancer, ...
Mar 29, 2018
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Medical research
Tweak to assay could bolster disease detection
A team of School of Medicine researchers has developed a technique that they hope could more precisely detect diseases or disorders such as cancer or a heart attack.
Feb 12, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
New biomarkers predict outcome of cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified biomarkers in the blood that make it possible to predict whether cancer patients will respond positively to immunotherapy. Pa-tients for whom therapy does not work can ...
Jan 8, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Happiness is not determined by childhood biomarkers
Happiness is not determined by childhood biological markers such as height or body fat, according to a team of European researchers involving UCL.
Sep 18, 2017
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