{"id":1040968,"date":"2026-10-05T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040968"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:35:00","slug":"google-co-founder-sergey-brins-foundation-backed-a-major-parkinsons-study-in-2023-researchers-validated-a-test-that-could-detect-disease-linked-biology-before-movement-symptoms-appeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-foundation-backed-a-major-parkinsons-study-in-2023-researchers-validated-a-test-that-could-detect-disease-linked-biology-before-movement-symptoms-appeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founder Sergey Brin&#8217;s foundation backed a major Parkinson&#8217;s study; in 2023, researchers validated a test that could detect disease-linked biology before movement symptoms appeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sergey Brin Family Foundation, a private philanthropic organisation established in 2014 by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, supports a variety of important issues. These include research to understand, treat and improve the lives of people with central nervous system conditions and accelerating next-generation energy innovation. The foundation has also backed researchers who are running the Parkinson\u2019s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) and achieved a major scientific milestone in 2023 by validating a biological test capable of spotting Parkinson\u2019s pathology in living patients before physical symptoms surface.<\/p>\n<p>The diagnostic breakthrough, detailed in a study published in The Lancet Neurology, centers on an assay known as \u03b1Syn-SAA (alpha-synuclein seed amplification assay).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sergey Brin Family Foundation, a private philanthropic organisation established in 2014 by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, supports a variety of important issues. These include research to understand, treat and improve the lives of people with central nervous system conditions and accelerating next-generation energy innovation. The foundation has also backed researchers who are running the Parkinson\u2019s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) and achieved a major scientific milestone in 2023 by validating a biological test capable of spotting Parkinson\u2019s pathology in living patients before physical symptoms surface. The diagnostic breakthrough, detailed in a study published in The Lancet Neurology, centers on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040970,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040968\/revisions\/1040970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}