08-09-2017, 02:23 AM
(08-09-2017, 02:06 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Also from the article, a few lines down:
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.
From what you quoted, T806 is only approved for research. Thus it is only experimental at this stage, e.g. unproven. Also, you cited one study. On less than 50 patients. Which means they don't even know if the results of the first small study are even reproducible.
The goal is to develop a scan which can diagnose CTE in living patients instead of post-mortem brain biopsies during autopsies. As you have pointed out with your sources, researchers are working on scans to diagnose CTE in living patients, but they aren't quite there, yet.
