United Kingdom: ME Association news

I remember reading about the proposed finger prick test for Alzheimer’s the other week and wondering if similar technologies could be applied to search for biomarkers in the blood of people with ME/CFS: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5y85e8d2xo:
An international trial is examining whether a finger-prick blood test could be used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease.

The study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, will aim to detect biomarkers associated with the condition.
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From the BBC article (my bold):
The Bio-Hermes-002 study, external is led by the medical research charity LifeArc and the Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation, with support from the UK Dementia Research Institute.
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The UK Dementia Research Institute is where the MEA funded ME/CFS study is based.

I appreciate that they are looking for three specific proteins (amyloid and tau) in Alzheimer's but I’m not clear how they identified those proteins as being associated with the disease. Would that have been using the ALAMAR NULISA technology that is being used for the ME/CFS study?
 
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Robert 1973 said:
I appreciate that they are looking for three specific proteins (amyloid and tau) in Alzheimer's but I’m not clear how they identified those proteins as being associated with the disease. Would that have been using the ALAMAR NULISA technology that is being used for the ME/CFS study?
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Very possibly. Zandi talked about there work being centred around a system for measuring lot of things from a tiny sample.
 
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