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Procter & Gamble (PG), Cleveland Clinic to Partner on Heart Disease Biomarker Development, Commercialization

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Cleveland Clinic Partnering With Procter & Gamble And Cleveland HeartLab To Advance Discovery In Heart Disease

August 20, 2015 10:34 AM EDT

CLEVELAND, Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleveland Clinic is collaborating with Cleveland HeartLab and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) to develop and commercialize a diagnostic and management solution for a heart disease biomarker recently discovered by researchers in Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research and Heart & Vascular Institutes.

As part of the collaboration, Cleveland HeartLab will develop a diagnostic test to measure blood levels of TMAO, or Trimethylamine-N-oxide, a substance produced by gut bacteria and that is linked to heart disease. Meanwhile, Cleveland Clinic researchers will work with Cincinnati-based P&G to develop an... More