Less than a teaspoon of blood can predict Alzheimer's disease risk.
One of the essential pathological signatures of Alzheimer’s disease is deposition in the brain of an abnormal protein, called Aβ-amyloid (Aβ). About three decades before the onset of dementia symptoms, the deposition starts silently, without any sign of cognitive abnormalities. It is estimated that about 20-40 % of the general elderly population have a significant... Read more