How to Use biomarker in a Sentence
biomarker
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And the stronger the biomarkers, the more porous the endplates and the more sensitive the spine.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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One of the key biomarkers is the amyloid protein, found in plaques.
—The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 10 Aug. 2019
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And then after six weeks to two months, recheck your biomarkers.
—Will Stone, NPR, 14 June 2024
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Ferritin is a biomarker that reflects iron stores in the body.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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In total, 20 of my biomarkers were out of range, and 85 were normal.
—Angela Haupt, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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The work pointed to a biomarker of suicide risk in people with PTSD.
—Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2019
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The researchers found that the biomarkers and brain scans backed up their new diagnoses.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2019
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In fact, researchers weren’t even sure whether the level of the biomarker in the blood even correlates with levels in the brain.
—Max G. Levy, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
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The hope is that one day CTE could be detected in the living through biomarkers in the blood, urine or saliva..
—Kent Somers, azcentral, 6 June 2018
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The new biomarker test can help physicians decide when to transfer patients to the ICU and the type of treatment to be used.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 11 May 2021
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Fox and Sherer had been searching for a biomarker for the condition for over a decade.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
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There is no human out there that has better biomarkers than me.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
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The sensor sends the biomarker data to the smartphone app via Bluetooth on a minute-by-minute basis.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
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The search for long Covid treatments has been stymied by the lack of a biomarker, something that doctors can test for or measure.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 26 May 2023
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Could the same protein serve as a biomarker for vestibular migraine?
—Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
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Could a biomarker present at birth predict babies at high risk?
—Erin Prater, Fortune, 15 May 2022
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And if that biomarker were also a factor in causing it, researchers might glean some new ways to treat the disease.
—Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
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Everything about their bodies were tracked, their blood, all sorts of biomarkers were tracked.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
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Topalian, 30, was among the first patients to use biomarker testing when she was first diagnosed with leukemia at age four.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
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There, the focus was on the molecule as a potential biomarker for a range of diseases.
—Stephen S. Hall, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
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Using conventional blood draws, the team tracked changes in the levels of each biomarker.
—Max G. Levy, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
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Fluorescent tags are then attached to the biomarkers and lit up with lasers, to calculate the amount present.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
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One new test called HrC checks for stem cells that hold a biomarker for cancer and is being tested in some hospitals in the UK.
—Men's Health, 17 May 2023
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Those who manifest Alzheimer’s symptoms can be followed through the course of the disease, and changes in biomarkers noted along with the progress of symptoms.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
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There are some limits: biomarker testing couldn't be used for screening alone.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
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Joyce pushed the need to find a biomarker that might identify people who have a disposition to CTE.
—Kent Somers, USA TODAY, 24 June 2017
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Witwer thinks that the signal of exRNA could also prove useful to physicians as a biomarker of disease.
—Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
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Then Brown and his team looked for this chemical, called IP25, as a biomarker of sea-ice algae’s presence in polar bears.
—National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
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But biomarkers are not the same as symptoms, so the risk is that costly new drugs will be approved that do not actually work.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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Association of rapid eye movement sleep latency with multimodal biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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