• blorbschploble@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    🎶 it’d don’t mean crap unless it has known and useful levels of sensitivity and specificity, and you know how to use the results to update your probabilities 🎵

  • Re_Thomas@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Nope, one doctor at our institute got funding but every professor is laughing at this. Its not working

  • POOP-Naked@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Clickbaity.

    “The device has so far been tested on brain tissue samples from deceased Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, where it proved to be as accurate as state-of-the-art testing techniques. That said, the ultimate goal is for it to detect the biomarkers in live patients’ saliva or urine samples.”

    Summary: device based on Covid style testing (saliva) COULD be used in the future to detect proteins that are markers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

    It’s currently only effective with brain tissue samples.

    This could be great but this sounds like Theranos BS

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      1 year ago

      So basically “there’s a 60% chance that it’s already raining” but with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

  • xtramundane@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Make sure your quality of life subscription plan covers the use of this device to avoid financial and social ruin!