{"id":228819,"date":"2026-01-11T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/multiple-sclerosis-may-have-two-distinct-subtypes-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:03:27","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-may-have-two-distinct-subtypes-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/multiple-sclerosis-may-have-two-distinct-subtypes-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Sclerosis May Have Two Distinct Subtypes, Scientists Discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/multiple-sclerosis-may-have-two-distinct-subtypes-scientists-discover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will help clinicians understand where a person sits on the disease pathway and who may need closer monitoring or earlier, targeted treatment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There may be two distinct subtypes of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study led by scientists at University College London (UCL). The finding, if validated, could help doctors provide more specialized care for patients.<\/p>\n<p>The study used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">machine learning<\/a> to analyze data drawn from blood tests and brain scans of 634 patients participating in two different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/clinical-trials\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">clinical trials<\/a>. Machine learning models are trained to pick up subtle patterns that humans might miss.<\/p>\n<p>The blood tests were for detecting a protein called serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL), a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/departments\/neurological\/depts\/multiple-sclerosis\/ms-approaches\/neurofilament-light-chain\">known biomarker<\/a> of diseases of the nervous system, including multiple sclerosis (MS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will help clinicians understand where a person sits on the disease pathway and who may need closer monitoring or earlier, targeted treatment. There may be two distinct subtypes of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study led by scientists at University College London (UCL). The finding, if validated, could help doctors provide more specialized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228819","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=228819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}