{"id":171369,"date":"2023-09-05T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-blood-test-detects-key-indicator-of-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2023-09-05T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:26:12","slug":"new-blood-test-detects-key-indicator-of-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-blood-test-detects-key-indicator-of-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"New blood test detects key indicator of Parkinson\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-blood-test-detects-key-indicator-of-parkinsons-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new blood-based diagnostic test could be a major advancement for the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s, a disease that afflicts 10 million people worldwide and is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the knowledge that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson\u2019s a team of researchers, led by neuroscientists at Duke Health, have developed an assay that enables the accurate, real-time quantification of mitochondrial DNA damage in a scalable platform [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abo1557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a>]. The results of the study, which received support in part from The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson\u2019s Research, have been published in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abo1557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Science Translational Medicine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, Parkinson\u2019s disease is diagnosed largely based on clinical symptoms after significant neurological damage has already occurred,\u201d said senior author <a href=\"https:\/\/neurology.duke.edu\/research\/lab-and-translational-research\/laurie-sanders-phd\">Laurie Sanders<\/a>, PhD, an associate professor in Duke School of Medicine\u2019s departments of Neurology and Pathology and member of the Duke Center for Neurodegeneration and Neurotherapeutics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new blood-based diagnostic test could be a major advancement for the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s, a disease that afflicts 10 million people worldwide and is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer\u2019s. Building on the knowledge that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson\u2019s a team of researchers, led by neuroscientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}