Apologies if its already posted its all i could find21 Mar 2021 09:17
Paraytec’s grant funded project (AD Scanner) to deploy its ActiPix™ technology in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis, working with a pan-European consortium of Karolinska Institute, Biomotif, Vrije University Medical Centre Amsterdam and MS Vision, is making good progress. The project is on target to complete in August 2021 and aims to produce and test the first instrument for the prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by fast and simple blood test. The automated AD Scanner prototype with fully tested software is now in use. The instrument uses capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF), together with ActiPix™technology, to identify the level of protein biomarkers (abnormal proteoforms) in blood samples. If present, these abnormal proteoforms are indicative of the likely rate of mental decline for a given AD patient. This is important because such information could be used by clinicians in early diagnosis to differentiate AD patients from those with mild cognitive impairment, and also by researchers to help develop better drugs to counter this devastating disease. Research conducted by the Alzheimer’s Society shows that, in 2019, there were over 850,000 people with dementia in the UK. The Society considers that more than 520,000 people in the UK have dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease and this figure is set to rise