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Cake day: November 12th, 2023

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  • Clickbaity.

    “The device has so far been tested on brain tissue samples from deceased Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, where it proved to be as accurate as state-of-the-art testing techniques. That said, the ultimate goal is for it to detect the biomarkers in live patients’ saliva or urine samples.”

    Summary: device based on Covid style testing (saliva) COULD be used in the future to detect proteins that are markers for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

    It’s currently only effective with brain tissue samples.

    This could be great but this sounds like Theranos BS