Similar to how researchers are coming up with biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s and related dementias, a team of investigators are working on a blood test to detect Parkinson’s disease.The test in question spots and quantifies single ⍺-synuclein fibrils, parts of ⍺-synuclein that are a hallmark of Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative disorders collectively known as ⍺-synucleinopathies. […]

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