by University of Helsinki Aggregation of alpha-synuclein in a nerve cell. Credit: Timo Myöhänen research group There are currently 8 million patients with Parkinson’s disease in the world. In 2021, Professor Per Saris’s group published results demonstrating that bacteria of the Desulfovibrio bacterial genus correlate with Parkinson’s disease, and that their higher number also correlates with the severity of the...
