A team from IIT-B, led by Prof Samir Maji, has developed a technology that can measure toxic protein aggregates
One of the most potent causes of PD is a special form of toxic protein aggregates (amyloids) formed by alpha-synuclein, which kills neuronal cells in the brain.
It is now a well-known fact that early diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) can help a patient reduce the risk of progression and live long and productively enough with this neuro-degenerative condition. It is this quest for detecting early signs that drove researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) to develop a blood-based assay. And now they have achieved a 95 per cent accuracy in detecting the disease early enough in a small cohort of patients at the KEM Hospital.
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