{"id":153920,"date":"2022-12-30T12:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuroscientists-developed-a-blood-based-biomarker-for-alzheimers-diagnosis"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:27:47","slug":"neuroscientists-developed-a-blood-based-biomarker-for-alzheimers-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuroscientists-developed-a-blood-based-biomarker-for-alzheimers-diagnosis","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists developed a blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-developed-a-blood-based-biomarker-for-alzheimers-diagnosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A significant step toward improved accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine developed a new test to identify a sign of Alzheimer\u2019s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, diagnosing Alzheimer\u2019s disease requires neuroimaging,\u201d said senior author Thomas Karikari, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Pitt.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Artur Plawgo\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cbrain-derived tau\u201d (BD-tau), the biomarker is specific to neurodegenerations related to Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and it reportedly outperforms currently used blood diagnostic tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant step toward improved accessibility. Neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine developed a new test to identify a sign of Alzheimer\u2019s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample, according to a press release. \u201cAt present, diagnosing Alzheimer\u2019s disease requires neuroimaging,\u201d said senior author Thomas Karikari, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Pitt. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153920","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\/153920","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}