Prof Sanders added: “Our hope is that this assay [test] could not only diagnose Parkinson’s disease, but also identify drugs that reverse or halt mitochondrial DNA damage and the disease process.

  • Flying Squid
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    71 year ago

    I really hope so. Parkinson’s absolutely destroyed my grandfather. There was nothing he liked more than drawing. And he was really good at it, especially technical drawings. He was an aircraft inspector in WWII and I have the study notebooks he used. They’re beautiful. So many wonderful illustrations of aircraft parts, tools and gauges, etc. But as an old man, he couldn’t even hold a pencil. It was just so sad.

    • @baruchinOP
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      31 year ago

      I’m sorry to read that. Let’s hope for these kind of diseases to get a cure soon.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I just saw your post of the notebooks! Eradicating things like Parkinson’s can’t come soon enough.

      • Flying Squid
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        31 year ago

        This thread inspired me to post them.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          They are absolutely beautiful and such a special thing to share. It helps remind us of all the work and passion that the people before us had that’s often just lost and forgotten to history.