After a decade in development, a new genomic test developed at the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF) promises to ...

A next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF demonstrates its ability to rapidly and accurately diagnose a ...

In order to perform the CSF Oligoclonal Bands test, a sample of your cerebrospinal fluid is retrieved. The most common way to attain a sample is through a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal ...

Figure 1: QUIC reactions seeded with brain homogenates and CSF samples from normal or scrapie-affected hamsters. These observations suggest that a diagnostic test for prion infections based on CSF ...

A research group at LMU University Hospital has investigated how Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed more reliably in the future.

Using cerebrospinal fluid from living patients, researchers have identified specific proteins and genetic pathways involved ...

Through the collection and testing of blood, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), or other bodily fluids, liquid biopsy can detect signs of a tumor via fragments of tumor DNA, proteins, or tumor cells ...