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Blood Test for Schizophrenia
Filed in archive Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation by ruth on January 24, 2010
Blood Test for Schizophrenia
© Neeta Lind
According to a report published recently in the Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, a diagnostic blood test for schizophrenia might be available by this year.

[The authors] have identified schizophrenia biomarkers in serum, and working with the company Rules-Based Medicine, located in Austin, Texas, and Lake Placid, N.Y., she expects that a serum-based test to aid in the diagnosis of schizophrenia will be launched sometime this year.

"We've identified a signature of numerous protein biomarkers, which give a very high sensitivity and specificity," Bahn says. "We've looked at hundreds of samples from patients and controls and other disorders that are related to schizophrenia."


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