{"id":153733,"date":"2022-12-27T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-biomarker-test-can-detect-alzheimers-neurodegeneration-in-blood"},"modified":"2022-12-27T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:22:21","slug":"new-biomarker-test-can-detect-alzheimers-neurodegeneration-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-biomarker-test-can-detect-alzheimers-neurodegeneration-in-blood","title":{"rendered":"New Biomarker Test Can Detect Alzheimer\u2019s Neurodegeneration in Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.new-biomarker-test-can-detect-alzheimers-neurodegeneration-in-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 A group of neuroscientists led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher developed a test to detect a novel marker of Alzheimer\u2019s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample. A study on their results was published today in Brain.<\/p>\n<p>The biomarker, called \u201cbrain-derived tau,\u201d or BD-tau, outperforms current blood diagnostic tests used to detect Alzheimer\u2019s-related neurodegeneration clinically. It is specific to Alzheimer\u2019s disease and correlates well with Alzheimer\u2019s neurodegeneration biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A group of neuroscientists led by a Pitt School of Medicine researcher developed a test to detect a novel marker of Alzheimer\u2019s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 A group of neuroscientists led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher developed a test to detect a novel marker of Alzheimer\u2019s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample. A study on their results was published today in Brain. The biomarker, called \u201cbrain-derived tau,\u201d or BD-tau, outperforms current blood diagnostic tests used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}