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A Blood test for Depression This year, Eva Redei, a professor at Northwestern s Feinberg School of medicine, published a paper that identified molecules in the blood that correlated to major depression in a small group of teenagers.
#Blood tests will take mental illness out of the squishy realm of feelings. And as Lonna Williams, C e o. of Ridge Diagnostics, says,
Biopsies aren t the only sources for culture. The process could potentially use stem cells.
Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow's shoulder in a gentle biopsy and grown in calf serum with micro-exercise
-While the cow had a gentle biopsy the calves didn't have it so nice
The researchers believe this technology may function as a liquid biopsy revolutionizing conventional biopsy practices
Today's biopsies require the removal of tissue samples through a needle inserted into a solid tumor a procedure that is invasive and sometimes painful.
Biopsies are extremely difficult in metastatic prostate cancer because the disease often spreads to bone where the availability of the tissue is low.
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