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Caption: Brain PET scans from a healthy volunteer (left), a subject with mild cognitive impairment (middle) and a subject with Alzheimer's disease (right). Red and yellow areas show the new chemical marker FDDNP binding to abnormal brain proteins or "plaques and tangles."
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