by | Jun 21, 2024 | Piwnica-Worms, David, Sharma, Vijay, Sivapackiam, Jothilingam
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a novel positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical for myocardial perfusion imaging. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is widely employed in the evaluation of patients with heart disease. Several ag…
by | Jun 18, 2024 | Jiang, Xuntian, Ory, Daniel
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a set of novel bile acid biomarkers to screen, diagnose, and monitor the progression of Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease. Current testing for this disease takes an average of three months, is invasive (a skin…
by | Oct 18, 2022 | Semenkovich, Clay, Zayed, Mohamed
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Researchers from Mohamed Zayed’s lab at Washington University have developed a blood biomarker test for atherosclerosis more accurate than LDL. Circulating levels of Fatty Acid Synthase (cFAS) in the serum correlate to a high degree to severity of peripheral atheroscle…
by | Apr 20, 2022 | Jain, Umang, Stappenbeck, Thaddeus
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have identified a new avenue for treatment of non-healing ulcers in patients with Crohn’s disease by targeting Debaryomyces hansenii. While the cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown, the fungus D. hansenii colonize…
by | Apr 18, 2022 | Chandra, Pallavi, Coullon, Heloise, Philips, Jennifer
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Researchers in Jennifer Philips’ lab at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a more sensitive biomarker test for active tuberculosis infection. These biomarkers, found in the sputum and plasma, comprise of cholesterol metabolites that are cooperatively prod…