New research provides more evidence that dried blood samples collected from a simple finger prick can be used to measure key biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In a multicenter study of more than ...

Nobody enjoys giving blood samples, but it’s a necessary part of many hospital stays and doctor visits. Soon we might not have to, thanks to a new device that can isolate biomarkers for different ...

One day, all that will be needed to pick up the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s may be a single drop of blood from a finger prick. In a January 5 Nature Medicine paper, researchers led by Nicholas ...

A simple finger-prick dried blood test accurately tracked Alzheimer’s-related brain changes in research settings, pointing to a future role in widening access to early screening while confirmatory ...

Capillary blood tests measure p-tau217, GFAP, and NfL without strict temperature controls or immediate centrifugation. Primary care physicians currently have a diagnostic accuracy of ~61% for ...