Boston University Researchers May Be Closer To Identifying CTE In Living Patients

By Mike Sullivan, CBS Boston

February 7, 2024

BOSTON - Boston University researchers may be a step closer to diagnosing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes while they're alive.

It is all part of cutting-edge research being done on living and deceased professional athletes who played contact sports.

"We quantified the amount of the protein that accumulates in CTE in a lot of different parts of the brain, and we also interviewed family members of the deceased brain donors," said Jesse Mez, senior co-author of this latest study at the BU CTE Center.

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