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elimination, and the symptoms mimic those of other neurological disorders, patients are also at
risk being diagnosed and treated for the wrong disease. (Davey, Melissa. "Blood Test to Detect
Parkinson's disease could lead to Earlier Treatment." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media,
19 Apr. 2016. Web. 20 Apr. 2016.)
Scientist work hard to show that this new method works. The Stanford team is working to
validate its test with saliva from the public-health lab. If successful, the test could screen large
populations of people for HIV infection at the most valuable time for starting treatment. The
researchers also are hoping to develop their assay for type 1 diabetes, the kind that can start
during childhood. The immune systems in people with this disease make harmful antibodies.
Those antibodies trigger the killing of cells in the pancreas. Thats the organ that makes the
hormone insulin. (The other form of diabetes known as type 2 is not an autoimmune
disease. People with type 2 diabetes make insulin, but their cells dont use it as well as they
should.) Srinath Sanda is a pediatrician and researcher at the University of California, San
Francisco. He sees a lot of kids with diabetes. He thinks the new assay looks promising. Having
a fast, accurate assay could help determine a patients type of diabetes and ensure they receive
the right treatment, he says.
In conclusion this is why the new technology will work. This will cure many diseases
before they even appear. This can help you before you get those strange changes in your body.
And this will help you know before its too late.