In some archival news that greatly pretains to boxing, Exsome Science, Inc, a subsidiary of Aethlon Medical, Inc, is working on a blood test that could find and detect Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which could in theory, help save fighters, football players and other atheletes involved sports with massive impact.

The study still in its infancy was sent to IRB for protocol approval in 2018.

What this is short means that biological properties native to a person’s blood could be drawn and if a corralation is found used to deem whether a fighter could compete.

To read more about this, go to this New York Times article.