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Breakthrough test could spot deadly motor neurone disease years before symptoms appear

Breakthrough test could spot deadly motor neurone disease years before symptoms appear

A simple blood test can tell which patients will develop devastating motor neurone disease a decade before symptoms appear, a groundbreaking study has revealed.  Neurology experts at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine believe they can spot the neurodegenerative disorder by looking at specific proteins in blood samples.  Professor Alexander Pantelyat, study investigator, said: ‘We had always assumed that …

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