Design and development of "bio-electrochemical sensor" to diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

Dr. Faezeh Shokri, senior researcher and a faculty member of Royan Institute, announced: "The design of this biosensor is capable of detecting "special intercellular vesicles" in the blood."

She added: "in this research, the first biosensor for Alzheimer's disease is going to be designed and built which is capable of detecting "phosphorylated tau marker" in blood samples of people experiencing Alzheimer's disease."

She pointed out: "There are different methods to detect biomarkers in the human body's fluid samples which are mostly expensive and complicated, and none of them can diagnose Alzheimer's disease precisely, so we hope to do this by detecting the "phosphorylated tau" in the blood samples."

This project has 20 percent progress and will be finished by next year as predicted.