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Detecting Alzheimer's Early: A New Test

  • February 01, 2005

Up to now, the only definitive way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease has been to study brain tissue during an autopsy, much too late to do anything about it. A new test developed by two researchers at Northwestern University could help physicians diagnose and treat Alzheimer's much earlier in the game. The bio-barcode assay test, said to be up to 1 million times more sensitive than others, detects a protein in the brain -- amyloid-beta-derived diffusable ligand (ADDL) -- associated with...