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A 2026 mechanistic review linked microplastics to 6 proposed Alzheimer’s disease pathways and 6 proposed Parkinson’s disease pathways.1 The calibrated interpretation is that microplastics ar…
Read articleA 36-person Parkinson’s disease balance study found that perturbation-evoked muscle activity could be split into brainstem-latency LLR1 responses around 116-119 ms, cortical-latency LLR2 res…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) injected into the substantia nigra produced persistent Parkinson’s-like motor signals through 20 weeks, includin…
Read articleA 2026 meta-analysis of 54 human studies found that 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine rose in Parkinson’s disease, while F2-isoprostanes did not show a statistically confirmed Parkinson’s signal; …
Read articleA 2026 rat and astrocyte study found that human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell exosomes given 6 hours after experimental intracerebral hemorrhage reduced pro-inflammatory signaling and…
Read articleA 2026 ENIGMA structural MRI preprint involving 3,958 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 5,489 controls found 2 cortical-alteration subtypes rather than 1 uniform brain pattern.1 The re…
Read articleA 2026 twitcher-mouse study found that adenine base editing corrected only about 0.5% of genomic DNA and 5% of mRNA in a Krabbe disease model, yet that low editing signal restored GALC enzym…
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