New Non-Invasive Method Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Early: MRI Probe Technology Shows Brain Toxins in Living Animals for First Time
December 26, 2014
(Nanotechnology Now) – No methods currently exist for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, which affects one out of nine people over the age of 65. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University scientists and engineers has developed a noninvasive MRI approach that can detect the disease in a living animal. And it can do so at the earliest stages of the disease, well before typical Alzheimer’s symptoms appear.