A January 17, 2018 Alzheimer’s News Today article spotlighted the work of Hong Kong Baptist University researchers who developed a tool for spotting Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers that can detect them in several body fluids simultaneously. Called SIM, it is an indolium-based turn-on fluorophore, made-up of antibodies that bind to beta-amyloid and tau proteins, which is more sensitive than other detection methods. According to Li Hung-wing, “This newly developed assay will be particularly useful as a low-cost yet accurate diagnostic and prognostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease. It can also serve as a novel alternative non-invasive tool for population-wide screening for the disease.”