{"id":216903,"date":"2025-06-30T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/newborns-have-elevated-levels-of-a-biomarker-for-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-06-30T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:05:08","slug":"newborns-have-elevated-levels-of-a-biomarker-for-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/newborns-have-elevated-levels-of-a-biomarker-for-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Newborns have elevated levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newborns-have-elevated-levels-of-a-biomarker-for-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newborn babies and patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease share an unexpected biological trait: elevated levels of a well-known biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s, as shown in a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/braincomms\/article\/7\/3\/fcaf221\/8158110\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and published in Brain Communications.<\/p>\n<p>First author Fernando Gonzalez-Ortiz and senior author Professor Kaj Blennow recently reported that both newborns and Alzheimer\u2019s patients have elevated blood levels of a protein called phosphorylated tau, specifically a form called p-tau217.<\/p>\n<p>This protein has largely been used as a diagnostic test for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, where an increase in p-tau217 blood levels is proposed to be driven by another process, namely the aggregation of b-amyloid protein into amyloid plaques. Newborns (for natural reasons) do not have this type of pathological change, so interestingly, in newborns increased plasma p-tau217 seems to reflect a completely different\u2014and entirely healthy\u2014mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newborn babies and patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease share an unexpected biological trait: elevated levels of a well-known biomarker for Alzheimer\u2019s, as shown in a study led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and published in Brain Communications. First author Fernando Gonzalez-Ortiz and senior author Professor Kaj Blennow recently reported that both newborns and Alzheimer\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216903","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\/216903","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}