Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher company and a leader in global clinical diagnostics innovation, today launched the industry's first fully automated Brain-derived Tau (BD-Tau) research use only (RUO) immunoassay test. Access BD-Tau, along with Beckman Coulter Diagnostics' expanding portfolio of neurodegenerative disease RUO assays, is available for use on the groundbreaking DxI 9000 Immunoassay Analyzer and Access 2 Analyzer. This portfolio of assays enables precision medicine research on clinical-grade platforms for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases and includes p‑Tau217, NfL, GFAP and APOE ε4.

Octave Bioscience, Inc., a commercial stage precision care company that is pioneering a new standard for managing multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, today announces the close of its $35.6 million Series C equity financing and that it has entered into a $15.5 million non-dilutive term loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) a Division of First Citizens Bank.

A respected organization acclaimed for their groundbreaking work with neurological diseases, C2N Diagnostics, LLC, is partnering with The Michael J. Fox Foundation For Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to better understand the connections amongst neurodegenerative conditions, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and neuronal a-synuclein disease (NSD), which encompasses Parkinson’s disease (PD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and REM behavior disorder (RBD).

Global life sciences company Labcorp has announced the first commercially available glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) blood biomarker test in the US, offering a new tool for the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases and brain injuries.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have identified noncoding genetic regulatory elements that impact the risk of dementia from Alzheimer's disease and the pathologically related progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

Fujirebio announced on Thursday that it is acquiring neurodegenerative disease diagnostic company ADx NeuroSciences for €40 million ($42.1 million).

Two researchers from Skoltech and McGill University have published a review of the promising research field known as structural proteomics in the influential journal Chemical Reviews.