Purvesh Khatri, a professor of medicine at Stanford, helped develop the biomarker test, which looks at which genes are switched on or off, depending on the infection.
Source: tatoeba (12252374)
Biomarker
//ˈbaɪoʊˌmɑɹkɚ//
Synonyms for "biomarker" (1 found)
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8 translations across 8 languages.
French
1 entries- biomarqueur noun (indicator of a biological state)
German
1 entries- Biomarker noun (indicator of a biological state)
Greek
1 entries- βιοδείκτης noun (indicator of a biological state)
Italian
1 entries- biomarcatore noun (indicator of a biological state)
Portuguese
1 entries- biomarcador noun (indicator of a biological state)
Russian
1 entries- биома́ркер noun (indicator of a biological state)
Spanish
1 entries- biomarcador noun (indicator of a biological state)
Swedish
1 entries- biomarkör noun (indicator of a biological state)
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Testing them at the two-year mark, they found that those children with the highest levels of a blood biomarker called interferon gamma had a 40-fold increase in the risk of developing active tuberculosis.
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The goal of combining biomarkers is usually to increase the predictive power beyond that afforded by an individual molecular biomarker.
Source: wiktionary
“We are very interested in the concept of biomarkers, including digital biomarkers; in other words, the pattern of your accessing the internet may allow us to detect whether or not you are going to turn out to be vulnerable or not,” said Fineberg, although she admits at present this is just a theoretical idea.
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