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2025-08-21 Science & Technology

Parkinson's Isn't Just Bad Luck. Scientists Reveal It's Largely Preventable‐and the Culprit Is All Around Us

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-21 05:03|| || Front Page|| [420 views ] Top

#1 $3B seems like a good value. It’s less than supporting Stacey Abrams cost us.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-21 06:28|| 2025-08-21 06:28|| Front Page Top

#2 ...which calls for $3 billion of federal funding

Nuff said

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-21 07:55|| 2025-08-21 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-21 09:47|| 2025-08-21 09:47|| Front Page Top

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-08-21 11:42|| 2025-08-21 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 No supper for you DooDauMan.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-21 12:19|| 2025-08-21 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Oprah, huh?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-21 12:44|| 2025-08-21 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 James Parkinson, who named the disease, did his work in the early 1800s. The condition had been recognized for centuries before that (going back to 10 century BCE Egypt).

The so called 'modern pollution and chemical exposure' hypothesis is somewhat inconsistent with this.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-08-21 13:55|| 2025-08-21 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 My sweetheart is one of the world’s leading Parkinson’s researchers. We have two companies going after separate genetic forms of the disease. One is a gene replacement of the gene named Parkin. If you are born without the two alleles (one from mom, one from dad) of this gene you will get early onset Parkinson’s in your late teens or early twenties. If you get only one allele you will also get Parkinson’s early, just later in life. We are on the path of FDA approval and hope to start human trials in a couple years. Prolonged pesticide exposure causes similar symptoms and she believes (supported by human cell testing) that the introduction of the Parkin gene to these patients should positively impact the disease progression. Lots of work being done on the genetic forms of the disease which should help set a pathway towards dealing with the non-genetic forms.

Posted by Remoteman 2025-08-21 14:33|| 2025-08-21 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 That’s very good to know, Remoteman. Thank you, and your sweetheart, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-21 22:15|| 2025-08-21 22:15|| Front Page Top

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