"We demonstrated we could accurately and repetitively detect Alzheimer's disease with small samples of blood", said Dr Vassilios Papadopoulos, director of the institute. "This test also allowed for differential diagnosis of early stages of Alzheimer's disease, suggesting this can be used as a test to diagnose the disease in its infancy." Until now, there had been no way of definitively diagnosing Alzheimer's disease besides post-mortem analysis of brain tissue.
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