Scientists identify blood biomarker for detecting chronic traumatic encephalopathy in living patients
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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine identified a blood protein fragment, eMTBR-tau243, that is elevated in people with advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Currently, CTE can only be diagnosed post-mortem, but this biomarker opens the possibility of living diagnosis, though it cannot yet reliably detect early stages.
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