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Optical sensors and lab-on-fiber technology may detect Alzheimer's disease at early stages

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Optical sensors and lab-on-fiber technology may detect Alzheimer's disease at early stages

Currently, the only accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is through postmortem analyses after a patient dies, but investigators have now developed a highly sensitive method for quantifying levels of tau protein—a hallmark ...

Jul 21, 2022

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