University of Newcastle researcher Professor Murray Cairns and his Precision Medicine team at HMRI have discovered a unique biomarker in the blood of people with schizophrenia.
“The new technique we have pioneered, in partnership with the Australian Schizophrenia Research biobank, allowed us to analyse blood serum from 600 participants, including 230 people diagnosed with schizophrenia’'.
Link to the PubMed record of the paper: miRNA cargo in circulating vesicles from neurons is altered in individuals with schizophrenia and associated with severe disease
I contributed blood to that project! I think that is cool they’ve isolated something from all those samples. It’s a game changer for dx if you get that into a simple test. Would have saved me a million heartaches and probably 5 years of my dysfunctional life.