Simple blood test diagnoses Parkinson's disease long before symptoms appear
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
A new research report appearing in the December issue of the FASEB Journal shows how scientists from the United Kingdom have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The test is possible because scientists found a substance in the blood, called "phosphorylated alpha-synuclein," which is common in people with Parkinson's disease, and then developed a way to identify its presence in our blood.
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