Excitement is building following the development of a ground-breaking technique that enables scientists to detect tiny clusters in the brain which are believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
One of the defining features of Parkinson’s is the presence of abnormal protein clumps in the brain known as Lewy bodies. However, some scientists believe these larger clumps originate from much smaller, toxic groupings called alpha-synuclein oligomers – clusters of a protein known as α-synuclein.
