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Revealing the mechanisms of disease

Chronic diseases affect billions of people and are crippling healthcare systems around the world. They are deeply complex and many lack accurate diagnostics or effective treatments.

Mechanostics® open a new frontier in precision medicine – with unique actionable insights into over 60 complex diseases.

These are a new class of tests accelerating diagnosis, predicting & preventing chronic diseases, and recruiting patients likely to respond to specific medicine into clinical trials.

Identify the biological mechanisms causing & preventing disease
Predict each individual's lifetime risk of disease
Enable differential triage and faster diagnosis
Help identify optimal treatments for specific patients*
Detect earlier, intervene effectively and prevent disease

*For research and clinical trial use only.

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Fast, low-cost, and non-invasive

Mechanostics have multiple advantages over polygenic and metabolomic diagnostics in complex conditions and power complementary new clinical applications.

They are rapid and non-invasive, using a simple cheek swab to reveal mechanism-based biomarkers associated with disease risk & resilience.

They can be deployed at-home as well as primary and secondary care and are compatible with widely available genotyping platforms used in CLIA/CAP labs around the world for easy and scalable delivery.

Predict and prevent chronic diseases that account for over 80% of all healthcare costs

Clinically actionable results

Mechanostic tests transform detection, treatment and prevention of complex diseases that affect over 5 billion lives.

Identifying a patient’s specific risk factors and disease mechanisms guides the development of personalized care pathways. These can include tailored monitoring, lifestyle changes and protective prophylactic therapies to delay onset and prevent progression of major chronic diseases.

This is precision medicine, for everyone.

Supporting a range of clinical applications and at-home tests

Patient Triage
Treatment Optimization
Clinical Trial Recruitment
Disease Risk Prediction
Early Intervention & Prevention

Differential Triage & Accelerated Diagnosis

Identifying key disease mechanisms to enable faster, more accurate referrals

Many chronic conditions have overlapping symptoms which often results in delayed referrals, clinical waste and incorrect diagnoses.

Mechanostics identify the underlying biological mechanisms driving disease in each patient, providing clear, actionable insights to accurately distinguish between conditions.

This enables differential triage across chronic diseases to more effectively manage non-specific referrals, so that patients can be allocated to the right specialty for the right procedures – preventing backlogs and disease progression in patients, reducing inappropriate specialist referrals and expensive confirmatory testing, and avoiding ineffective treatments.



For diagnostics 

Diagnostics providers gain high-value tools that improve clinical efficiency, integrate seamlessly with existing genotyping platforms, and improve the delivery of care to patients.

For healthcare

Healthcare systems benefit from reduced diagnostic delays, fewer unnecessary investigations, and faster triage to the right care pathways where they can deliver procedures more efficiently - optimizing resource allocation to relieve pressure on specialist services and improve patient outcomes.

Treatment Optimization

Targeting treatments to the right patients

Mechanostics enable targeted decision-making by identifying the specific disease mechanisms active in each patient – stratifying patients by mechanism, and showing the therapy that is most likely to be effective for them.

These insights determine which patients are most likely to benefit from a given treatment – and potentially avoid adverse reactions, and tolerability issues.

This approach enables payers to prioritize the treatments that align with the patient’s underlying disease biology. For example, mechanostics tests can identify those patients most likely to benefit from GLP-1 receptor agonists.



For biopharma, CRO & diagnostics

Biopharmaceutical, CRO and diagnostics companies can develop and easily deploy our mechanostic tests as high-value companion diagnostics that support precision regulatory strategies, personalized treatment strategies and improve therapy ROI.

For payers

Healthcare payers may benefit from being able to identify patients who will not tolerate specific drugs, saving them from adverse events, lowering overall drug costs and giving better patient outcomes.

Clinical Trial Recruitment

Smarter recruitment for faster, more effective trials

Mechanostics transform trial recruitment by identifying patients with the specific genotypic and mechanistic profiles that are targeted by new investigational therapies - improving response rates and trial efficiency from the outset.

Our low-cost, non-invasive tests use saliva or buccal swabs and run on standard genotyping arrays compatible with CLIA/CAP-accredited labs worldwide.

This makes Mechanostic screening highly scalable, enabling rapid pre-screening of large patient registries and populations across diverse sites and geographies.



For clinical trial design & enrichment

Biotech and pharma partners can run smaller, faster, and more successful trials by enriching for the patients most likely to respond. Mechanostics reduce response heterogeneity, improve targeting of inclusion criteria, and support enriched trial design strategies.

By combining precision recruitment with global scalability, Mechanostics can lower drug development risk, accelerate timelines, and increase the probability of success – helping to bring precision therapies to market faster.

Disease Risk Prediction

Identifying at-risk patients before symptoms emerge

Mechanostics enable proactive healthcare by detecting subtle, highly predictive genotypic signatures long before clinical symptoms arise. Using combinatorial analytics, our tests identify individuals at elevated risk based on the specific biological mechanisms that drive disease.

The tests make large-scale population screening practical and cost-effective with low-cost test kits and compatibility with widely available genotyping arrays.



For diagnostics

Diagnostics providers can offer next-generation risk prediction tools in complex diseases affecting hundreds of millions of patients. Adding clinical value and creating new revenue streams.

For healthcare

Healthcare providers benefit from earlier interventions, reduced late-stage diagnoses, and the ability to shift from reactive treatment to preventative care – improving outcomes while lowering long-term costs.

Early Intervention & Prevention

Detecting risk and preventing disease with clinically actionable insights

Mechanostics determine an individual's lifetime risk of developing specific chronic diseases by identifying the genotypic signatures and biological mechanisms that drive (and prevent) disease onset.

This empowers clinicians to implement tailored early interventions - from lifestyle modifications and active monitoring to prophylactic therapies - to delay or even prevent disease progression.

PrecisionLife is uniquely positioned to go further, identifying actively protective biology (disease resilience mechanisms) that informs the development of next-generation prophylactic drugs and vaccines targeting major chronic conditions.



For diagnostics 

Diagnostics providers can expand the value of routine testing into common chronic diseases by offering predictive tools that support prevention-focused care models and public health strategies.

For healthcare

Healthcare systems benefit from a measurable reduction in future disease burden, enabling more sustainable care delivery and longer, healthier lives for patients.

Major benefits for patients, payors & providers

How Mechanostics compare with traditional diagnostics

Mechanostics Diagnostics
Test Genotype Metabolomic/genetic
Sample type Buccal swab (non-invasive) Various (non-invasive – surgery)
Cost per test $ $ – $$$
Administration Self-test / Point of care Point of care / Surgical
Readout Disease risk and protective effects. Mechanisms underpinning disease. Active disease status. [Surrogate] of disease progression.
Patient insights Most likely effective treatment. Expected symptoms / clinical presentation. Likely disease trajectory (pre-symptomatic). [Surrogate] marker, may be linked to clinical endpoint. [Stage of disease, progression rate].
Applications Differential triage between similar conditions. Therapy selection by disease + mechanism. Clinical trial design & recruitment biomarkers. Early (pre-symptomatic) detection of disease risk for personal preventative health. Confirmation of disease after presentation of clinical symptoms. Early pre-symptom screening. Measurement of residual disease. [Therapy selection by disease].

From sample to solution

A simple test


Non-invasive sample taken at home or in a primary care setting, tested against a standard genotyping array 

Rapid results


Results delivered by our clinical decision support platform, translating disease mechanisms into actionable insights

Predicting risk


Pre-symptomatic risk detection allowing for proactive monitoring, lifestyle changes, or therapeutic interventions

Detecting cause


Identifying the underlying biology driving disease, enabling personalized care based on each patient’s specific mechanisms

"This unrivaled understanding of the mechanistic causes of disease enables us to better determine disease risk, accelerate diagnosis, and guide more effective treatment strategies and care pathways to improve lives."

Amy Rochlin
Chief Executive Officer
Complex Disorders Alliance

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