Because of the logistics and invasive procedures involved, many people put off getting tested for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Thanks to a new portable device, however, such testing could soon be performed non-invasively at just about any location.
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“The device has so far been tested on brain tissue samples from deceased Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, where it proved to be as accurate as state-of-the-art testing techniques. That said, the ultimate goal is for it to detect the biomarkers in live patients’ saliva or urine samples.”
Summary: device based on Covid style testing (saliva) COULD be used in the future to detect proteins that are markers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
It’s currently only effective with brain tissue samples.
This could be great but this sounds like Theranos BS
Elizabeth Holmes selling ideas from prison I see.
So for your checkup today we’ll just need a urine sample, blood sample, and uhhh brain tissue. Thanks.
idk I had that covid test swab and I am pretty sure they got out some brain tissue samples
So right now “on the spot” only works if you are dead.
So basically “there’s a 60% chance that it’s already raining” but with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
If they could get it to work on blood or urine that would be amazing. Unfortunately it wouldn’t be able to detect vascular dementia. You still need an MRI for that.
Why not just get a sample of the alive person’s brain and test it? I mean, it would be simple procedure.