William Hu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and collaborators at the Universityof Pennsylvania and Washington University, St. Louis are getting closer to uncovering an in inexpensive and very convenient test for Alzheimer’s disease. This type of test has been studied for several years; however reliability of results and an inability to replicate the same results have prevented such a test from being discovered. Now, scientists have finally found a group of markers that hold up in statistical analyses in three independent groups of patients.Basically, they measured the levels of 190 proteins in the blood of 600 participants. The subjects studied included healthy volunteers and individuals that had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). “A subset of the 190