In a laboratory at the Australian National University, a device small enough to fit in a pocket may be rewriting the timeline of one of humanity's most feared diseases. Dr Shankar Dutt and his team have developed nanopore sensors capable of identifying individual protein molecules in blood, offering the possibility of detecting Alzheimer's disease up to 15 years before a single symptom appears. At a moment when dementia claims more than 17,500 Australian lives each year — a toll that has risen nearly 40 percent in a decade — this technology arrives as a rare convergence of precision science an
ANU nanopore sensors could detect Alzheimer's 15 years early
Dementia accounts for 17,500+ Australian deaths annually with a 39% increase over the past decade, making early detection critical for patient outcomes.