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Researchers Question Whether Alzheimer’s Proteins Can Spread Through Donated Blood

Researchers Question Whether Alzheimer’s Proteins Can Spread Through Donated Blood

Few things in medicine are as routine, or as life-saving, as a blood transfusion. Patients receive them after accidents, during surgery, and through cancer treatment, and most never give it a second thought. Now a group of researchers is asking whether donated blood could carry more than blood. A new review in The Lancet examines whether proteins…