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Alzheimer Disease
Optics tests for early Alzheimer diagnosis make significant advances
October 25th, 2006
Providing an update on progress and new findings on his optical tests for the early detection of Alzheimer disease, Lee Goldstein of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School described dramatic new developments in the technology during a plenary talk at Frontiers in Optics, the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in Rochester, N.Y. Goldstein presented "proof of concept" evidence obtained in mice that the tests can detect early molecular signs of the disease in the eye even before Alzheimer pathology is present in the brain. This achievement raises hopes for detecting the disease at its earliest stages and slowing the progression of the...
Source: Biotech Week (2006-10-25)
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