A sugar analysis could reveal different types of cancer

In the future, a little saliva may be enough to detect an incipient cancer

15-Dec-2023 - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an effective way to interpret the changes in sugar molecules that occur in cancer cells. Glycans are a type of sugar molecule structures that is linked to the proteins in our cells. The structure of the glycan determines the function of ...

New blood test gives very high accuracy to screen for Alzheimer’s disease

08-Sep-2023 - A new blood test called p-tau217 shows promise as an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, and when used in a two-step workflow very high accuracy to either identify or exclude brain amyloidosis, the most important and earliest pathology. That is an innovation now presented by researchers at the ...

New tests identify very early changes in Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear

07-Dec-2020 - Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, together with their colleagues at the Barcelona Beta Research Centre in Spain, the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the University of Paris, have found new forms of tau protein that become abnormal in the very early ...

New marker for Alzheimer's discovered

16-Sep-2009 - Gothenburg researchers have discovered a previously unknown substance in spinal fluid that can be used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The findings, described in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, will also be useful in research on new medications. The ...