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Products from companies including Olink, Standard BioTools, Seer, and Biognosys went head-to-head in a study run by Grifols subsidiary Alkahest.
The effort raises the possibility of combing high-plex proteomics with remote sampling for more nimble and flexible approaches to population-scale studies.
The effort looked at six plasma proteomic approaches, comparing coverage and reproducibility as well as trade-offs between cost, performance, and throughput.
A total of 600,000 samples will be analyzed by the Regeneron Genetics Center using the Olink Explore HT proteomics assay and the Ultima Genomics sequencing platform.
Researchers uncovered 13 blood plasma-based protein markers for brain aging while highlighting three inflection points in the late 50s, early 70s, and late 70s.