Heart Transplantation: Blood Sample Supplants Biopsy?
Using previously acquired donor and recipient genetic information, they deduced that searching for specific homozygous donor SNPs in the organ recipient’s whole blood correctly identified 83% of biopsy-confirmed allograft rejection events.
In Search Of Misfolded Proteins
“The researchers have already used the technique to detect misfolded protein aggregates in cerebrospinal fluid from Alzheimer’s patients (PLoS One, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0015725). They now plan to test the diagnostic usefulness of the assay in larger groups of patients with Alzheimer’s and other diseases.”
