US EditionResearch Finding Opens the Door to a Viral Link to Parkinson’s Disease
JUL 18 – The Allen Brain Cell Atlas now includes data from 3 million Parkinson's disease brain cells, increasing its dataset by nearly 50% to advance neurodegenerative disease research.
- On July 16, 2025, ASAP and the Allen Institute expanded the ABC Atlas to include Parkinson's data, adding 3 million human cells from nine brain regions, enhancing research capabilities.
- With no known way to prevent or slow its progression, Aligning Science Across Parkinson's and Allen Institute said, Parkinson's disease is the second most common and fastest-growing neurodegenerative condition worldwide.
- The ABC Atlas provides intuitive data visualization and exploration tools that researchers benefit from within the Brain Knowledge Platform.
- Partnering with ASAP in revealing how brain cells go awry in Parkinson's disease will greatly amplify the impact we can jointly make to accelerate the development of more effective treatments, said Hongkui Zeng, Executive Vice President of the Allen Institute.
- Researchers will gain a singular place to visualize cross-disease data using a shared system for labeling cell types, unlocking new insights that could accelerate Parkinson's understanding and treatment development.
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Research finding opens the door to a viral link to Parkinson’s disease
A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, but this is the first study to pinpoint a specific virus as more common in Parkinson’s patients. “The message that we want to give to the general public is, it opens a new field of investigation, something that we didn’t know about,” said Dr. Igor Ko…
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Northwestern Medicine research finding opens the door to a viral link to Parkinson’s disease
A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, but this is the first study to pinpoint a specific virus as more common in Parkinson’s patients. “The message that we want to give to the general public is, it opens a new field of investigation, something that we didn’t know about,” said Dr. Igor Ko…
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