The testing procedure was created by the company ALZpath and offers a comparatively painless, less costly alternative to spinal taps for insight into a person's risk of the disease.
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A new blood test screening for signs of Alzheimer’s disease may soon be able to detect it even before symptoms begin to show, a study finds. The research, published in the JAMA Neurology journal on Monday, found blood tests screening for a protein called phosphorylated tau “accurately identified” biological Alzheimer’s disease. The study, which included 786 participants,…