Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimers disease lurking in patients spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy.

Researchers at New Yorks Weill Cornell Medical College discovered a pattern of 23 proteins floating in spinal fluid that, in very preliminary testing, seems to identify Alzheimers — not perfectly, but with pretty good accuracy.

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