Mayo Clinic researchers have found that first-degree relatives (i.e., parents, siblings, children) of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) are more likely to have the biomarker of the disease in their blood.
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A simple test to diagnose Parkinson's disease (PD) before symptoms appear by measuring the levels of a protein in blood is being developed by researchers from the Howard Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne and The Mental Health
Research Institute of Victoria.
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Blood tests for panic disorder and other mental health conditions are potentially around the corner, based on results from a University of Iowa study.
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Scientists at Monash University in Australia have developed a process for rapidly and efficiently separating blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing doctors to do blood tests without sending samples to a laboratory.
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington School of Medicine, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves blood test which screens for Chagas disease. The test shows if there are antibodies to the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite in patient's blood.
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A newly developed non-invasive, diabetes screening device was shown to outperform conventional blood tests, and may be ideally suited to detecting the more than 70 million individuals worldwide who have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, according to research findings presented in Capetown today at the 19th World Diabetes Congress of the International Diabetes Federation.
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