Biomarker

BOSTON — Lower levels of urinary club cell 16 were associated with childhood asthma, with potentially stronger associations between these lower levels and atopic childhood asthma, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Calvin Roberts, MD, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, discusses two “moonshot” ophthalmology programs from the organization.

The human leukocyte antigen DRB1*01:03 allele was associated with severe ulcerative colitis, along with greater odds for major operation, hospitalization and corticosteroid use, according to results of a Danish study.

In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you pearls and perspectives from the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer, as well as Healio’s top headlines from the meeting.

C2N Diagnostics has been awarded more than $7 million from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator initiative to advance a novel platform intended to boost Alzheimer’s disease biomarker detection.

Tulisokibart, an anti-TL1A monoclonal antibody, outperformed placebo in inducing clinical remission at week 12 in moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, according to a new study that also incorporated a predictive biomarker for response.

Ellipsoid zone integrity may be an important biomarker in predicting the progression of geographic atrophy in eyes with dry age-related macular degeneration.

Patients with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease had significantly greater putative retinal gliosis compared with controls, according to study results published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

Plasma biomarkers shed light on concussion-related neuropathology in adolescents who played contact sports in Canada, supporting their use in pathophysiology, according to new research.

Acceptance and utilization of lung cancer biomarker testing has increased in the past 6 years, but key barriers persist, according to survey results.