With This Blood Test, You Can Know Multiple Conditions About Your Health

By using solely a plasma sample, a blood test now can give not only a full report of the state of health but also a forecast of possible diseases. It is said to be somewhat familiar to Theranos, but being supported by Nature Medicine's research is one point that makes it far different from that failure. 

With the aim of finding a large number of proteins through plasma scanning, the study is conducted by a group of researchers from UC San Fransisco, Cambridge University and the SomaLogic, which is one of the Colorado-based companies. Targets of this study are DNA aptamers and fragments that could compose to form a protein. Because particular kinds of protein could be made only by specific fragments, scientists can base on aptamers to know the state and concentrations of available proteins. 

Thanks to the information updating to A.I algorithms, things such as diabetes or cardiovascular potential could be diagnosed. Although it is still too early to confirm the result of this principle, the study’s conductors hold their strong belief in a thorough one-blood-sample medical exam with the help of advanced technology. If their research ends in success, it will be called a liquid health evaluation.

In some other blood tests, several indicative proteins were found through plasma measurement. For example, the research conducted by IBM scientists is utilizing a blood evaluation to find amyloid-beta, which is a peptide associated with Alzheimer’s. They are also trying to feed that information into risk-predictable machine learning. In addition, concussions’ harshness is also studied to be diagnosed by using blood tests, which are calculated by evaluating two brain proteins GFAP and UCH-L1. Simultaneously, the researchers are trying to make TB Tests become budget-friendly through blood levels of four proteins and anti-TB antibody analysis. In conclusion, it appears to be good on paper that researchers could make more disease prediction through one blood sample, basing on aptamers searches.