Stanford team finds blood test to help identify Alzheimer's disease

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An excerpt from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/15/MN4VSP4S8.DTL
(10-14) 10:16 PDT Stanford - -- Researchers at Stanford University have developed a potentially pathbreaking blood test that, according to preliminary studies, is able to identify patients with Alzheimer's disease - an ailment that has been notoriously difficult to diagnose.

The test has also shown promise in predicting which patients with mild memory loss are at high risk of developing the dreaded syndrome, which kills 66,000 Americans each year and inflicts incalculable heartache on the families of its victims.
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Please read more at the link provided above.

 
Out of curiosity is there any linkage anywhere about the contributions of folding to any advances? I didn't see any in this article but it mention proteins.
 
F@H's research is fundamental more than anything when it comes to the development of cures and the like. F@H looks to give a greater understanding of what is happening on the cellular and molecular level, so when researchers are looking at creating the miracle drugs we're hoping for, they have some solid information to go by in terms of whats happening on the cellular level. This information is vital, but no simulations done by F@H at this time are made to directly "develop a cure" but more to provide much much needed data so those cures can be developed based on the data we've gathered from F@H's computation.
 
Sometimes I wish I had chosen Molecular Biology as my career path instead of Network Engineering.
 
kaleb_zero said:
F@H's research is fundamental more than anything when it comes to the development of cures and the like. F@H looks to give a greater understanding of what is happening on the cellular and molecular level, so when researchers are looking at creating the miracle drugs we're hoping for, they have some solid information to go by in terms of whats happening on the cellular level. This information is vital, but no simulations done by F@H at this time are made to directly "develop a cure" but more to provide much much needed data so those cures can be developed based on the data we've gathered from F@H's computation.
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This is the same as a car mechanic needing to understand how the engine works to be able to find a solution to a problem.

 
Does anyone know if any of the information acquired from the F@H project helped in developing this blood test? If so, any articles or such that mention that? Something like that would be huge for quieting the doubters and furthering the F@H cause.
 
Parja said:
Does anyone know if any of the information acquired from the F@H project helped in developing this blood test? If so, any articles or such that mention that? Something like that would be huge for quieting the doubters and furthering the F@H cause.
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It seems to me that if you want, you can contact the professor directly: Stanford neurology Professor Tony Wyss-Coray. http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neurology/frdActionServlet?choiceId=facProfile&fid=3929

There ya go, dude. :) Let us know what you discover, will you?
 
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