They also looked at data from healthy human brains, to identify networks of genes that seem to work together, and were associated with the disease. (sciencedaily.com)
SNTF is a protein that is present at undetectable levels in healthy human brains, but is produced under conditions where nerve cells are traumatized and begin to die. (sciencedaily.com)
So far the researchers have used the probe to distinguish between diseased and healthy human brain samples. (scientificamerican.com)