A microRNA Blood Test for Alzheimer’s? | The Scientist Magazine®

 A new test predicts Alzheimer’s disease with 93 percent accuracy, according to a study published in Genome Biology. Testing the blood of 202 people for 140 different microRNAs (miRNAs), a team of researchers at Saarland University, in Germany, identified 12 RNA fragments circulating at consistently different levels in healthy people and patients with Alzheimer’s, BBC News reported.

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