Researchers are developing a test to diagnose two very serious diseases such as ALS and FTD when the pathologies have not yet appeared, thereby providing doctors and patients with essential information tools to tackle them early and develop new treatments. A team of researchers at SISSA in association with different clinical and Italian research institutes have made a promising first step in this direction. The protagonist of the study, published in the journal Brain Communication, is the protein TDP-43 which accumulates in…