In May 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first blood-based in vitro diagnostic test for AD, ...

Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a major leap for genetic diagnostics, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute ...

Patients with rare diseases often experience prolonged diagnostic delays. Ordering appropriate genetic tests is crucial yet challenging, especially for general pediatricians without genetic expertise.

A new long-read DNA test improves rare disease diagnosis, replaces multiple existing tests, and could become the preferred ...

Johns Hopkins researchers say they’re getting closer to developing a blood test that would identify changes in the brain associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders — an advancement that ...

Researchers in a Johns Hopkins Children's Center-led study that used genetic material from human blood and lab-grown brain cells say they have made progress in developing a blood test to identify ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a novel tool Tuesday that uses genetic testing to help assess whether certain people are at risk of developing opioid use disorder. The AutoGenomics AvertD ...

The BioFINDER-2 cohort included 1,422 participants with a mean (standard deviation (s.d.)) age of 69.3 (10.6) years, of whom 708 (49.8%) were female and 702 (49.3%) were cognitively impaired as ...

Researchers believe the test could be a new way to foresee how quickly the disease will progress, but evidence so far is preliminary. A growing body of research links insulin resistance, a hallmark of ...

SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from depression. The news may be ...

Researchers used genetic material from human blood and lab-grown brain cells say they have made progress in developing a blood test to identify disease-associated changes in the brain specifically ...