Advance Toward an Imaging Agent for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are reporting development and initial laboratory tests of an imaging agent that shows promise for detecting the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the brain -- signs that now can't confirm a diagnosis until after patients have died. Their report appears in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.