Lab Notes: Agent Lights Up Alzheimer's Tangles

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 01/13/2012 - 15:00

(MedPage Today) -- A new contrast agent can make neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease visible on imaging, preliminary studies suggest.

Also in this week's Lab Notes: telomere length dictates birds' lifespan.


 

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