A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, have developed a simple, reliable test for identifying biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of inherited metabolic disorders that are currently diagnosed in patients only after symptoms have become serious and the damage possibly irreversible. (health.ucsd.edu)
When Lipkin was interviewed this past November about a 2 - year, $ 766,000 project on CFS / ME funded by NIH, on which he and Hornig are co — principal investigators, Lipkin credited several external collaborators but did not mention Hornig's contribution to the work, which aims to identify biomarkers of CFS / ME. (sciencemag.org)
However, Grigsby says the idea of identifying biomarkers in breath could be applied to monitoring various aspects of health, such as fatigue, in commercial pilots too. (newscientist.com)