The Lumipulse Alzheimer's blood test is the first of a new generation of tests that may replace brain scans and spinal taps to detect the disease.

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have found that high levels of a certain enzyme in the blood could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease. The enzyme, called PHGDH, plays ...

Dr. Abhay Moghekar, associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins, whose lab was involved in evaluating the blood test for FDA approval, said this will help avoid unnecessary tests and get the ...

The test, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, uses AI to analyse blood samples for tiny fragments ... Wes Streeting will visit a new lab funded by Cancer Research UK, which ...

The Food and Drug Administration cleared a new kind of test for Alzheimer’s disease designed to be more accessible and less ...

Loftfield and her colleagues studied samples collected from 718 healthy individuals aged 50–74 in 2012–13. The participants’ urine and blood samples had been collected twice, six months apart.

More than 700 of them had provided blood and urine samples, as well as detailed dietary recall reports, collected over a year. The scientists found that hundreds of metabolites – products of ...