Biomarker-Guided Advances in Diagnostic Medicine
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 451
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomarkers are measurements of biological variables, which can be detected in different tissues, blood and other body liquids. In addition, the rapid development of microbiome studies allows us to search biomarkers “outside of ourselves”. The huge biological variety leads to an almost limitless number of putative prognostic and predictive biomarkers. On the one hand, this allows us to employ many techniques, encompassing genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, in combination with bioinformatics and AI. On the other hand, there are strong restrictions that have been determined by clinical settings: biomarkers should preferably be non-invasive, stable, reproducible, have high predictive power and be relatively cheap. In this Special Issue, we aim to provide a platform for communication on the progress of biomarker identification and use in healthcare. Its scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Non-invasive biomarkers for early diagnostics of cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases with a strong impact on healthcare.
- Predictive biomarkers for estimating the efficacy of therapy in real time.
- Usage of omics, bioinformatics and AI for identifying novel biomarkers.
- Liquid biopsy as a source of diagnostic and predictive markers in cancer and other diseases.
- Microbiome and changes in its composition as a source of diagnostic and predictive biomarkers in cancer, psychiatric disorders and other diseases.
- Population genetics of biomarkers.
- Biomarkers for population screening and identification of risk groups.
- Implementation of biomarkers in clinical settings.
- Challenges and future perspectives of biomarker research and clinical application.
Prof. Dr. Edvīns Miklaševičs
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medical genetics
- hereditary cancers
- biomarkers
- miRNA
- microbiome
- omics
- screening
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