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News • Early detection of life-threatening conditions

Newborn immune profiling to improve neonatal care

Newborns, especially those born prematurely, are vulnerable to conditions such as sepsis. A new device profiles an infant’s immune function from a single drop of blood to improve neonatal care.

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News • Promising protein analysis tool

New blood test to enable rapid diagnosis of rare genetic diseases

An Australian research team has developed a blood-based method of analysing thousands of proteins in a single, untargeted test. This potentially enables rapid diagnosis of many rare genetic diseases.

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News • ABO antigen analysis

Blood type A identified as breast cancer risk factor

Does having blood type A increase the risk of breast cancer? A new systematic review and meta-analysis involving more than 13,000 breast cancer patients suggests a connection.

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News • AI-assisted platelet imaging

Monitoring blood clotting in real-time

Researchers have found a way to observe clotting activity in blood as it happens — without needing invasive procedures. This could open the door to better treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD).

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News • Blood-based marker P-tau217

Simple, yet effective way to early detect Alzheimer's disease

A new, simpler and cheaper analytical method for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease could help bring blood tests into the healthcare system globally, according to a new study.

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News • Pulsed infrared light to enhance diagnostics

Finding the ‘fingerprints’ of cancer

New research reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in blood plasma that could indicate the presence of certain common cancers.

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Article • Detection of neurodegenerative condition

Developing blood biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease

There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), although prescription drug-based treatments that can slow AD progression in some patients are starting to enter clinical use. Biomarkers, quantifiable characteristics of biological processes or pathological conditions of the body, are making it possible to help identify and measure the presence and extent of AD and its degenerative…

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News • Gene Therapy

Innovative gene therapy for hemophilia

Until now, those affected have had to inject the missing coagulation factor proteins themselves several times a week. Gene therapy now offers those affected the prospect of an improvement: the therapeutic agent is administered as a single intravenous injection.

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