Levels of an Inflammatory Marker Linked to Depression
There is mounting evidence that systemic inflammation is involved in depression and now a recent article in JAMA Psychiatry supports this hypothesis. Danish researchers looked at data from two broad population studies with a total of more than 73,000 individuals and found that elevated levels of CRP were commonly found in depressed patients. While the [...]
Grant Funding Awarded to Mayo Clinic for Gut Biomarker Research
The Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, an organization launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, last year issued a challenge to “Discover Biomarkers of Health and Disease“, specifically in two areas: Biomarkers of Tuberculosis and Biomarkers of Gut Function. The goal of this challenge was to discover validated biomarkers that could improve the [...]
Myriad Announces Diabetes Collaboration with Sanofi
As a major participant in the largest protein biomarker study of its kind, Myriad RBM will analyze more than 8,000 samples for Sanofi Aventis’ Outcome Reduction with Initial Glargine Intervention (ORIGIN) project, a pre- and early diabetes clinical study. The goal of the collaboration is to identify biomarker profiles that optimize treatment and improve care [...]