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Simple blood test ‘could diagnose condition at onset of symptoms’

Medical company IQuity Labs, which specialises in diagnostic tests for autoimmune diseases, has announced it has received $2m in seed funding to support the launch of its test panels - diagnostic tests designed to confirm the presence or absence of disease at the very onset of symptoms...Read more - http://www.ms-uk.org/MSnews
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Spinal fluid seems to contain MS which will affect other species of mammals. We have recently seen that it contains proteins which mark atrophy in the grey matter as early as CIS. Is this new test just to allow for detection via blood samples? Detection seems to be easily done, even though we don't know exactly what it is we are detecting. Am I the only one that finds that strange?
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