biomarkers

Skipping across the playground. Trotting off to school. Flying kites in the park. The researchers at the Centre Hospital Universite De Sherbrooke (CHUS) in Quebec need not look far to see reminders of why their work is so important. Early detection of metabolic disorders in newborns offers a better chance for preventing such serious conditions as mental retardation, metabolic acidosis, even death. Listen to how the CHUS urine screening program has made a difference in helping Quebec’s...

Gene expression measurement during treatment with Cisplatin for breast cancer.

Z. Khachaturian, PhD. - New approaches to the therapy of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are discussed in video interviews of this series. According to Z. Khachaturian (Potomac, MD) substantial progress has been made during the last 10 years in our understanding of pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease as well as in the discovery of biomarkers and therapeutic approaches. In addition to cholinergic drugs, inhibitors of plaque formation have been discovered, but the currently available...