Biomarkers – News and Features

Discover how scientists measure the air around us to track pollution and diagnose disease, including cancer and diabetes.

A new study showed that high doses of steroids, when given before and/or during a specific type of immunotherapy, caused patients’ tumors to shrink less than those of patients not on steroids. Those patients also did not live as long.

Japanese researchers found that melanin can protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context. In mice lacking the SLC26A4 gene, pigment buildup caused immune activation and inflammation in the inner ear.

A study links partner loss, unemployment, and financial stress to Alzheimer’s biomarkers and brain structure changes. MRI and spinal fluid analysis of 1,200 individuals revealed gender- and education-dependent effects.

Explore how multiomics research combines genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics to offer new insights in disease modeling and therapeutic advancements.

Nine scientists from academia and industry offer their take on the crucial skills tomorrow’s scientists will need to thrive in an evolving research landscape, from AI to digital lab fluency.

Could what's on your plate change your chemo outcome? Dietary microRNAs from food like eggs could affect cancer drug response – here’s what in silico analysis reveals about this promising discovery.

New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in infancy may increase their risk of having chronic disease in later life.

Scientists have developed mouse models that survive premature death and enable preclinical testing of alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or AHC, a devastating and sometimes fatal neurological disorder that affects about one in a million children.

A CU Anschutz study also identified the presence of a bacterium that causes gum disease in joint tissue, meaning it may play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis.