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(08-08-2017, 11:34 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: The tau protein is only visible when you stain the brain tissue with stains like Congo Red. The only way you're going to get the brain tissue is from the brain of a dead person. If you don't prepare the microscope slide with the chemical stains the tau protein isn't visible.

Brad, this quote is from the Newsweek article you supplied . . .

Also from the article, a few lines down:

Quote:To conduct the study, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis used a new imaging agent, known as T806, that has been found to cling to tau proteins. While T806 isn’t currently used in clinical settings, it is approved for medical research.

Ten patients with mild Alzheimer’s who weren’t yet showing signs of cognitive decline, as well as 36 healthy control-group participants, underwent positron emission tomography scans using T806. The researchers also conducted on all study participants PET scans that are effective in detecting the presence of amyloid plaques and are regularly used on patients. 

So there may be no way to image the tau, but there is a way to image the agent that clings to the tau, so it would become known that tau was present.