{"id":75775,"date":"2018-02-05T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2018-02-05T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:22:35","slug":"a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"A Potential Blood Test for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple technique to measure the amount of amyloid beta in the brain could improve diagnosis and drug trials for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to the results of new research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A simple blood test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japanese researchers led by Dr. Katsuhiko Yanagisawa have published a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature25456\">study<\/a> suggesting that a screening test could help to boost the success rate of Alzheimer\u2019s drug research. The research team has shown that a simple blood test can accurately measure the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that appears in the early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-potential-blood-test-for-alzheimers-disease\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple technique to measure the amount of amyloid beta in the brain could improve diagnosis and drug trials for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to the results of new research. A simple blood test Japanese researchers led by Dr. Katsuhiko Yanagisawa have published a new study suggesting that a screening test could help to boost the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75775","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\/75775","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}