A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer could help speed up diagnosis, according to a new study.
Results of a trial in North America show that the test was able to identify a wide range of cancers, of which three-quarters don't have any form of screening programme.
More than half the...
Preprint.
Paper now published, see this post
Abstract
A blood-based diagnostic test for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and multiple sclerosis (MS) would be of great value in both conditions, facilitating more accurate and earlier diagnosis, helping with current...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700209/#B47-biomedicines-08-00523
Abstract
Blood neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a marker of neuro-axonal injury showing promising associations with outcomes of interest in several neurological conditions. Although initially discovered and...
Not much I can add to the article except to note that the findings suggest a metabolic aetiology :
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-say-theyve-created-a-90-accurate-blood-tes-1823087752
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