http://www.physorg.com/news85160857.html
Researchers at New York's Weill Cornell Medical College discovered a pattern of 23 proteins floating in spinal fluid that, in very preliminary testing, seems to identify Alzheimer's - not perfectly, but with pretty good accuracy.
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But the new protein pattern requires "rigorous validation" by other researchers to make sure it really is linked to Alzheimer's, he cautioned.