Category: blood test

Blood-based TB test will provide a low-cost option for developing nations

Post author By Randall
Post date October 24, 2019
Categories In blood test, gear, medicine, tb, Tech

[ad_1] The test was developed by researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and several other institutions. It works by analyzing the combined levels of four proteins and an anti-TB antibody in blood samples to identify the patients who are likely to […]

Researchers hope a blood test can reveal early signs of cancer

Post author By Randall
Post date May 30, 2019
Categories In blood test, cancer, johns hopkins university, medicine, Tech, Theranos, thrive earlier detection, tomorrow

[ad_1] Initial studies for CancerSEEK have been promising, but scientists say there’s plenty of room for improvement. A retrospective study published in Science in 2018 of over 1000 patients with early-stage tumors revealed that CancerSEEK yielded a positive result about 70 percent of the time. CancerSEEK worked especially well for ovarian and liver cancers, with […]