Closing in on the Complete Panel

It’s your body’s way of combating infectious disease and infection. So, when something goes wrong with your immune system, it can be a big worry.

Autoimmune diseases affect 24 million people in the US, with a further eight million likely to develop one of these diseases later in their lifetimes.

There are approximately 80 known autoimmune diseases in the world. Some you’ll name off the bat like type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis and celiac disease. However, others are rare and hard to recognise.

They’re caused by many things; ranging from whether a woman is in her childbearing years, to family histories, to sunlight exposure and more.

Many have similar symptoms, making them difficult to diagnose. This is problematic when speedy diagnosis is crucial to avoiding long-term effects and more serious diseases. For example, celiac disease can lead to bowel cancer if it’s not diagnosed and treated early.

Creating a test that's able to identify all autoimmune diseases in one go would be the golden-ticket diagnostic solution – speeding up diagnosis across the board. This product would take the global autoimmune disease diagnostics market by storm.

We’ve still a way to go until that milestone. However, that’s not to say the industry isn’t rife with life-changing innovation. Please read my full article which talks about some of the top technologies in autoimmune disease diagnostics and the trailblazing companies closing in on the complete panel.