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Nature medcine “A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s dis ease pathology”

January 26, 2026

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The DROP-AD project investigates the potential of dried plasma spot (DPS) and dried blood spot (DBS) analysis, derived from capillary blood, for detecting AD biomarkers, including phosphorylated tau at amino acid 217 (p-tau217), glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light. …. Similarly, we demonstrated the successful detection of glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light with strong correlations between DBS and DPS, respectively, using paired venous plasma samples.
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Might find this paper very interesting. Just published this month in Nature Medicine. “A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology.”

A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology – Nature Medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04080-0

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Xpresso

January 25, 2026

https://xpresso.gs.washington.edu/

Agarwal V, Shendure J. Predicting mRNA abundance directly from genomic sequence using deep convolutional neural networks. 2020. Cell Reports 31 (7), 107663.

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Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation | Nature Genetics

January 25, 2026

https://github.com/calico/borzoi

N&V – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02154-w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-02053-6#:~:text=This%20paper%20proposes%20a%20new%20machine%2Dlearning%20model%2C,that%20drive%20RNA%20expression%20and%20post%2Dtranscriptional%20regulation QT:{{” ere, we introduce Borzoi, a model that learns to predict cell-type-specific and tissue-specific RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence. “}}

Linder, J., Srivastava, D., Yuan, H., Agarwal, V., & Kelley, D. R. (2025). Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation. Nature Genetics, 57(4), 949–961.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-02053-6

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Predicting cell type-specific epigenomic profiles accounting for distal genetic effects | Nature Communications

January 25, 2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54441-5
QT:{{” Enformer Celltyping can predict in new cell types, imputing their epigenetic signal, by embedding global and local chromatin accessibility (ATAC-Seq) signals for the cell type of interest. “}}

Murphy, A. E., Beardall, W., Rei, M., Phuycharoen, M., & Skene, N. G. (2024). Predicting cell type-specific epigenomic profiles accounting for distal genetic effects. Nature Communications, 15(1), 9951. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54441-5

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